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...ground below. The moving silhouette of a small airplane will tell him his position, and a luminous curve on the map will tell him how far he can fly without running out of fuel. Another luminous screen will show him a radar view of the terrain ahead, with mountains or other obstacles. These meaning-packed pictures will be the output of a lightweight computer that will do most of the necessary routine thinking. It will take crude information from many sources and turn it into a form that the pilot can use instantly, without interpretation. When fully developed, it will...
...battle out of Revelation. It is filled with precise detail ("The line troops are to be 40 to 50 years of age . . . The officers, too, are to be from 40 to 50 years of age; and all who strip the dead and collect the spoil and clean up the terrain and keep the weapons and prepare the food are to be between 25 and 30"), and some scholars look on it as a historical account of a real war; e.g., General Yigael Yadin of Israel finds in it various similarities with Roman fighting practices. But despite the military overtones...
Barley for Horses. In all the Orient the Japanese are the only mountaineering exceptions. At the turn of the century Japanese army officers were poling around the rugged terrain of Korea and Manchuria, even Siberia, picking up information for their military maps. In 1941, with war just ahead, the Japanese had a large expedition climbing the Himalayas of India's Punjab, hunting hardy wild mountain barley for the horses and men of their cavalry, and at home the sport of mountaineering kept abreast of political and military needs. The Japanese alps crawled with amateur climbers. Biggest goal of civilian...
...Adventure can be put into the hands of anyone capable of being stirred by great undertakings. Georgia-born Engineer Frémont, intelligent and fearless as well as an accomplished scientist, imprisoned the frontier in his reports and maps. His pictures of Indian life, the buffalo herds, the astonishing terrain, are among the best recorded. Though he never lost sight of his practical objectives, he never ceased to be exhilarated by the wild beauty of his surroundings. In the Rockies, as he was about to move forward on foot, he noted that "there were some fine asters in bloom...
...trucks loaded with French recruits rumbled through a narrow pass in the Nemencha Mountains near the Tunisian border. In this ideal ambush terrain, a murderous hail of bullets burst from the cliffs above them. Two officers and 21 men were killed. The survivors jumped down, sought cover and fought back. Four hours later helicopters thrashed overhead. Each disgorged five men as reinforcements, picked up the wounded, flew off to return with a new load. For five days last week the battle raged as French troops and paratroopers tried to root the rebels out of caves in the cliffs. At battle...