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...events will be as far-fetched as the proposed Grand Balloon Event, yet Kristen Wainwright and her fellow Harvard Square coordinators plan to make as full and original use of the environment as possible. To Jib Lampl, the Festival's "environmental" coordinator, the entire Harvard Square and Harvard Yard terrain can serve as a playground for his creativity. Jib is a junior who has taken a semester off "because I was thoroughly disillusioned with the state of arts at the University and with the role the College plays in relation to the community. The University should do much more...
That day the column moved about three miles. From atop an armored personnel carrier, the landscape looked like the Oklahoma Panhandle-thigh-high dry yellow banana grass, and clumps of scraggly trees on either side of the road. It was an ideal terrain for U.S. aerial domination-or so it seemed...
...Duke will descend in the lunar module Orion (after the constellation), explore the surface for 21 hours and collect a record 195 Ibs. of rocks. What will make these explorations even more scientifically interesting is their site: the lunar highlands, considered the moon's oldest and most rugged terrain...
Like the Apollo 15 astronauts who toured the mountainous terrain near Hadley Rille last summer. Young and Duke will have the services of a lunar rover equipped with an earth-controlled color-TV camera. The rover's seat belts have been redesigned to anchor passengers more comfortably during the jouncing ride in the moon's weak gravity. The electric drilling equipment that caused Apollo 15 Astronaut Dave Scott to grunt and curse as he tried to cut into the lunar soil has been modified. Other improvements include: new foods (ham steak, fruit desserts), special drugs and liquids...
...scourge of dam builders and redwood cutters, is the subject. The glitter in such a man's eyes can make it difficult to get a clear look at him, but McPhee had the happy notion of confronting Brower with three of his ideological enemies on threatened terrain-Glacier Peak Wilderness in the state of Washington, Georgia's Cumberland Island and finally, on a raft trip down the Colorado River. In the process Brower and his antagonists are revealed as subtly and convincingly as they would be in a good novel. The book settles nothing, but it shows clearly...