Word: terrain
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...months old. When he was 1 6, young Mike began spending his summers near Fairbanks working in his father's "Cat" and mines. For bought $5 a food day, for he the drove a camp, sometimes packed in 35-40 lbs. on his back across swampy terrain. Alaska's beauty and swat got him; he decided to take a permanent swat at it himself...
...Deep Freeze presented a cake iced with the flags of Britain and New Zealand. Said bearded "Bunny" Fuchs: "We did what we set out to do." What he and his men had done was to cross hostile Antarctica, a 2,100-mile struggle through the world's worst terrain and weather, and complete the last great land journey left to the earth's explorers...
...Bourguiba wanted to, it would be physically impossible for Tunisia to seal off its 600-mile border with Algeria. The southern 300 miles of the frontier run through forbidding desert; its northern reaches run through impenetrable woods broken by scrubby hills and low, rocky mountains. So rough is this terrain that even the French have made no serious effort to fortify the frontier itself. Instead, the French army has built the "Morice line," a 150-mile electrified barbed-wire fence along the Bône-Tebessa Railway (see map), which at some points lies as much as 50 miles west...
...plan to burn off a huge area of scrub forest with napalm over a period of three months. "If so much as a bird flies, it will be shot down," boasted one French official. Pointing out that the elimination of one forest still left several thousand square miles of terrain rich in cover, an F.L.N. spokesman retorted confidently: "If French troops and civilian inhabitants are pulled out to turn the area into a forbidden zone, we will move...
Projects of this sort are apparently in the works. A spokesman for the Army announced plans for a 500-lb. space vehicle that can be used for military reconnaissance, presumably taking pictures of the terrain that it passes over and sending them back to earth by radio or TV. Another announced Army project is a rocket motor with 1,000,000 lbs. of thrust, twelve times the power of the souped-up Redstone. Meanwhile, said Dr. von Braun, a second Jupiter-C is being made into a satellite launcher. Some time between now and April it will toss another small...