Word: valleys
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...enough trying to maneuver down the intermediate slopes at Sun Valley when you've only been skiing a few times before. It certainly doesn't help to have your five-year-old boy riding along behind on the shoulders of your ski instructor and yelling: "Watch out, you might fall! Watch out, you might fall!" Still, Jacqueline Kennedy stood up very well during the clan's winter ski outing, and it may not be too long before she starts riding up to the expert slopes with Bobby and Ethel. John-John was doing fine at lessons with...
Racing against the day when the Aswan Dam will submerge a 250-mile section of the Nile Valley, University of Chicago archaeologists recently unearthed a major manuscript discovery. Dug from the ruins of a 10th century Christian monastery on the Egyptian-Sudanese border, their find is an ancient Coptic prayer book containing a hymn to the Cross recited by Jesus before the Crucifixion and a hitherto unrecorded conversation between Christ and his disciples after the Resurrection...
...site of the remains is a secluded valley protected by high cliffs. The valley had a convenient supply of water and game. A nearby flint quarry provided material for stone tools...
...assigned to the Medical Corps, did more than just his job. His recommendation for a Silver Star notes that he kept on tending the wounded even after machine-gun fire chopped down a tree he was using for cover on that terrible night in the la Drang Valley. Of the 21 men whom Reid treated, only one died. Says Captain William Shucart of St. Louis, surgeon for the 1st Cavalry's 7th Regiment, 2nd Battalion: "I was pinned down elsewhere, and Reid treated the wounded strictly on his own. He gave blood and antibiotics and patched wounds-all that...
From Bangkok to the Mekong valley last week, the $40-million-a-year U.S.-Thai military development program was proceeding apace. Two U.S. Army engineer battalions worked side by side in rising red dust with Royal Thai Army engineers, carving a broad, all-weather military highway-the Bangkok Bypass road-from the Gulf of Siam to the northeast provinces (see map). At the ocean end of the road, the U.S. is building the $11.9 million Sattahip Naval Airbase, replete with jet strips, a deepwater pier, and 70 ammunition bunkers. At the other end stands Camp Friendship, near the town...