Word: valleys
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...green is an air strip, the streets are at least 80 ft. wide, and the street signs are only two feet high so that the planes' wings can clear them. The Bevilles' "town" is called Sierra Sky Park-130 acres of housing development in the San Joaquin Valley seven miles north of Fresno that is the hope and faith of a onetime flight instructor and sometime real estate salesman named William V. Smilie...
Next year's vice-president will be Deming Pratt '65, of Wolbach Hall and Locust Valley...
...World War I infantryman, only personified the Maginot mentality of most French career officers. Though warned that it would be fatal to fight a conventional engagement from a fixed base, Navarre concentrated 17 battalions in the North Viet Nam outpost, which lay in a ten-mile-long river valley. His strategy was to draw the Communist Viet Minh guerrillas into a set-piece battle in which French heavy weaponry would prove decisive. Along with tanks and artillery, his officers moved in their mess silver, embroidered white tablecloths, stocks of wine...
...picks, shovels and crow bars are carving the road from the sheer slopes of mist-hung mountain passes. Chinese instructors patiently show the Nepalese how to operate rock drills while other Chinese clear away rocks and dirt with bulldozers; still others are busily surveying and mapping every hill and valley in a country ideally suited to guerrilla...
...protective return to the womb. Though in an area famous for its subterranean paintings, its very magic may keep the new underground art gallery from ever becoming a tourist attraction. Only the hardiest visitors could crawl down to see the treasures 320 ft. below the surface of the Lot Valley...