Word: valleys
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...midtown Caracas to connect bending ribbons of concrete into a superhighway cloverleaf of supreme complexity. Even before sidewalks are in and the lawn is seeded, self-service elevators begin humming in the flat-fronted apartment buildings that shoot up steadily at the eastern end of the city's valley. On the slopes to the north and south, concrete flows into forms to make walls, patios, retaining walls and swimming pools for low, clean-lined mansions that can cost as much as $3,000,000. Overnight, packing-case houses with stone-weighted corrugated roofs rise on the hills that ring...
...Olympic program could be called berating-the-organizers. Every four years, disgruntled officials around the world find some reason or other to mount un-Olympian attacks on their host's preparations. Last week, with the 1960 Winter Olympics coming up this month in California's Squaw Valley, it was the U.S.'s turn to get its lumps...
...France, Dr. Jean Carle, chief of the mission to Squaw Valley, exploded at the crowded accommodations. "Can you imagine four women living together in one cramped room for a month? Eh bien, non! Ridiculous!" He also fretted about the disconcerting effect of importing big-time vaudeville acts to the valley: "How are we going to put our young men and women to bed at an early hour if there's a chorus line and Frankie Sinatra singing across the road...
...three days after this," the author relates, "his legs dragged along a body unable to break the habit of survival." At last, hardly conscious, he staggers through a mountain pass. What he sees convinces him that he has gone mad: a peaceful valley, ripening crops and an unburnt village. Seeing no people about, he breaks into a house, gorges himself and falls asleep. Later he awakens in alarm, but the habit of survival has reasserted itself too late. The village is full of soldiers, and he is trapped...
...time the quiet valley offers the shelter of illusion. Then, fearful that another army will discover the refuge, the captain leads his troops out through the pass. He returns alone, mortally wounded and grimly amused at the irony of his end: the general he had intended to support has won, but in the confusion of fighting, the captain has thrown his company into battle with the loser. "Yes, I can see the joke of that," says Vogel, also wounded. "You might put it that one always does join the wrong army...