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...canyon of incomparable beauty. Red sandstone walls climb 5,300 ft. above 518 verdant acres. Waters cas cade down arching falls and sparkle in terraced pools coated with deposits of travertine. From this flow came the settlers' name. The Havasupai Indians- "people who live by the blue-green water" - occupy, as they have for ten centuries, the floor of Cataract Canyon in Grand Canyon National Park...
...issue that confronts Portnoy, only in reverse: Can one really let go of the self, renounce personal gratification for the sake of others? In Manhattan, Roth plunged into psychoanalysis, wrote a play that never got past the workshop stage, often retired to the writers' colony at Yaddo, a verdant estate in Saratoga Springs...
...traditional Swazi society," Swaziland's King Sobhuza II once observed, "a latecomer often gets the best cut of meat." As Britain's last colonial claim on the African continent except for breakaway Rhodesia, Sobhuza's tiny (pop. 390,000), verdant land has waited patiently for its cut of independence. Last week a smiling King Sobhuza, surrounded by some 100 of his wives and dressed in a ceremonial headdress of lourie-bird feathers, a girdle of lion and leopard skins and a cloak made of oxtails, had his patience rewarded. British Commonwealth Secretary George Thompson handed Sobhuza...
...tallest. The steady, disciplined hand of German-born Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, 82, soon will show in Washington's pristine, block-long central library. For Oakland, Calif., New Haven-based Kevin Roche has designed a three-tier museum, with the roof of each tier serving as a broad, verdant terrace. Philadelphia's innovative Louis Kahn, whom all architects watch with what amounts to fascination, has such projects under way as a factory for Olivetti and an art museum in Fort Worth. Across the U.S., there is a wide range of powerfully self-confident and optimistic buildings...
...scarcely half a year later, the U.S. Marines were out of the base.* Amid occasional incoming shellbursts, bulldozers clattered across the base last week, filling the red clay scars that trenches had cut into the once verdant plateau, burying the hulks of crippled aircraft, Jeeps and trucks. Dust-caked Marines stacked up the aluminum matting that had formed Khe Sanh's 4,000-ft. runway, during the siege, its only link to the outside. Demolition men destroyed bunker after bunker, the single bit of protection against the rain of North Vietnamese steel that had lashed the base for almost...