Word: treks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Angered by the Egyptian wariness toward unity, Gaddafi returned home to Tripoli. Two weeks later, the marchers set off on a 1,500-mile trek, vowing to stage a sit-in in Cairo's Republic Square until Egyptian President Anwar Sadat ended all opposition to the merger...
...Indeed, Father Hastings two weeks ago placed it in western central Mozambique, but next day corrected himself, saying it was in the eastern Tete province. Reporters have been searching for it ever since, and for anyone who claims to have seen the massacre. TIME Correspondent Peter Hawthorne joined a trek last week and afterward sent this report...
...guys (Jack Warden and Bo Hopkins) naturally have a fierce letch for her. The third desperado, a stronger and more reserved type named Jay Grobart (Burt Reynolds), intercedes on behalf of her honor. This causes all sorts of fraternal tensions during the trek across country, leading to violence, death and a highly unlikely romance. The affair is finally consummated when Jay sweeps the adoring Catherine up in his arms and mutters, "You are the god-damnedest woman I ever met," as he bears her off to bed in the hotel of a deserted mining town...
...theoretical location hovering over immense seas of drifting, heaving ice. To Rawlins, Peary's claim that he made a beeline to the Pole over such terrain in-50° F. temperatures is hard to swallow, particularly since he used his sextant sparingly. On the last leg of his trek, he ordered his only thoroughly trained navigator to stay behind. Peary's recorded speeds of the final march far exceed the rate he had managed previously. Others have noted that the logs Peary presented as evidence were surprisingly clean considering that Arctic explorers seldom washed before or after eating...
...cruise right into the best family show of all time. Billy Gray was everybody's first existential hero, because no one knew what existential meant when we were eight Jane Wyatt is the ultimate TV mother, having given birth to Bud Anderson and Mr. Spock, for you Trek freaks. And it's fun to see Bob Young before he went to medical school. Channel...