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...instructing his cast in the Cockney accents of the play's South London milieu. And he also does well to guide them through a maze of scene changes and a dense fog of Pinteresque dialogue. But he nonetheless fails to shape the evening into dramatic highs and lows. The terrain the production travels is as flat as Omaha...
...prowling the lunar surface, only three-quarters of an hour short of their original goal. They also collected so much moon material that they nearly ran out of collection bags. Most significant of all, the next to last Apollo mission has already given scientists valuable new details about the terrain that makes up more than 80% of the lunar surface: the rugged and ancient highlands...
Meanwhile, the column sent to relieve An Loc remained stuck on Highway 13. The reason: the terrain was open and flat, ideal for bombing enemy troops and for taking up a defensive position should the North Vietnamese choose to attack. The NVA declined the bait, and only harassed the column while the troops' morale and supplies dwindled. Minh, who has built up a reputation as the most successful of Saigon's generals at avoiding a set battle, kept insisting that he was on the verge of "a great victory." His apparent reasoning: since...
...landing craft Orion to a nearly perfect touchdown only 200 yards off target in the moon's mountain-ringed Descartes region. It was man's fifth successful landing on the lunar surface, and the first in the highlands, the moon's oldest and most rugged terrain...
...close as Tech Square, where Polaroid makes the filters necessary for terrain-following radar. This radar makes it possible for planes to fly in the dark close enough to the ground to detect the enemy" with infrared sensors, which respond to the warmth of their bodies, and with "people sniffers," which detect the ammonia in human perspiration. Without the terrain-following radar, the planes would risk flying into a mountainside, for they fly without lights to avoid providing a target for anti-aircraft fire. The A-armed with these devices, "makes ground movement after dark a nightmare," the plane...