Word: terrains
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Writing about exercise was for Koffend a jog across familiar terrain. Hardly a day passes when he does not do his pushups, sit-ups and jogs-in-place either at home or at the office. His expertise in the subject is matched by that of Senior Editor Robert Shnayerson, who is often involved with Essay, and for this one was a prime source. Shnayerson runs for his life every morning along the shoulder of Manhattan's car-clogged Henry Hudson Parkway, or in nearby Riverside Park, averaging 20 miles a week. One hazard of running in the park...
...feet. Separating the enemy looking down on Khe Sanh lie deep ravines and draws, layered with a triple canopy of foliage on teak and mahogany trees as high as 200 feet. In topography, Khe Sanh looks like a smaller version of Dienbienphu, but the terrain and underbrush are far worse for an attacker. The Communists must go downhill through terrible maneuvering grounds, cross the ravines, then climb the plateau on which Khe Sanh sits?all in the face of intensive artillery fire and air attack that the French at Dienbienphu did not have...
...fact that it is one of the moon's youngest and major craters. From its 15,000-foot depths, a pattern of grooves or ridges spokes out over hundreds of miles of the moon's pock-marked surface. The scientists hoped to compare the composition of this terrain with that of the low-lying basically basaltic equatorial "seas," studied by earlier Surveyors. Since Tycho is believed to have been formed by the impact of a giant meteorite, and by the intense volcanic activity that followed, a look at ejected material surrounding the crater might provide the best clues...
...COLLECTED STORIES OF ANDRE MAUROIS. In 38 tales framed as conversations, recollections and letters, the late distinguished partisan in the battle of the sexes tours the terrain of women who are either wise or foolish, vital or declining, in love or remembering what it was like...
Ulbricht's blueprint envisions nine successive rows of obstacles within a strip, 300 or more ft. wide, abutting the border; each row, as in some medieval ordeal, is progressively more difficult. If an escapee manages merely to get near this highly guarded obstacle course, which varies with the terrain, he comes up almost immediately against two 5-ft.-high fences: the first keeps out stray animals, the second needs only the slightest touch to set off a cacophony of alarms. Just beyond them is a dog run, where 247 German shepherds already prowl sectors of the border. The escapee...