Word: terrains
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Simply Gorgeous. The "trial"-a kind of rally for motorcycles*-is a punishing test of bike-handling skill that requires the agility of an acrobat, the know-how of a mechanic, and the endurance of Job. Riders use special, lightweight motorcycles with high ground clearance (for traversing rocky terrain), special gears (for hill-climbing power), and waterproofed engines (for fording streams). Bounced like Yo-yos by their bucking bikes, they must make their own repairs in case of breakdown, take care of their own first aid. Spills are common: in the Welsh trial. Russia's Vikton Pylajev broke both...
...Security Council, where Tunisia accused France of "premeditated aggression." France's U.N. Ambassador Armand Bérard retorted that the Tunisian events were "tragic and regrettable," but that "a minor pretext was used by the government of Tunisia-some minor work, involving two or three meters of terrain to facilitate the landing of planes...
...other issue that might tilt Afghans into the Russian camp is their prickly relations with Pakistan. The rugged mountain terrain between the two nations is inhabited by wild Pushtu-speaking Pathan tribesmen-some 9,000,000 on the Pakistan side of the border alone. The Pathans love to shoot, make their own guns by hand, admit allegiance to neither Pakistan nor Afghanistan. (But once assimilated, the tall, tough Pathans make natural leaders: both the Afghan royal family and Pakistan President Ayub Khan are of Pathan stock.) The Afghans have piously encouraged the Pathans' demand for an autonomous state...
...Southeast Asia who are willing to fight in the face of Communist aggression look toward the U.S. as their helper when, at the threat of war, men responsible for the formulation of U.S. policies back out of a tricky situation by declaring "I don't think the terrain and conditions are right for sending in our troops," as Arkansas' Senator William Fulbright apparently stated. The political conditions in Asia might not be all "pro" America, but I wonder where the Senator was when the U.S. fought a war in the Solomon Islands, the Gilberts, the Marshalls, the Carolines...
...refuses to equate man's frailty with his destiny. He never confuses the tragic with the merely hopeless. Seferis' career as a diplomat in many of the world's trouble spots has conditioned his view of history as a terrain of action rather than impotence. Indeed, so diligent a diplomat is Seferis that he writes all his poetry at night, often as late as 3 a.m., when he can concentrate in solitude...