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Harvey's friends explained that his suicide had come from enduring one tragedy too many in a lifetime of mishaps. In 1949 he had survived when his speeding car crashed through a bridge in northern Florida, plunged into a canal, killing his second wife and her mother. Twice in peacetime he had been forced to parachute from airplanes; during World War II he crash-landed a battle-damaged B24. His accumulated injuries caused his eventual retirement from the Air Force. In 1955, Harvey and four companions were rescued by helicopter after his yacht, Torbatross, struck the submerged wreck...
...Davidson was the moving spirit in setting up the prestigious Channel Tunnel Study Group, consisting of his own Technical Studies Inc., a pair of venerable British and French companies associated with an 1881 attempt to bore a commercial tunnel, and the Suez Co., which, stripped of its canal, has become an investment company...
...second death." The coal mining center of Stalino (pop. 800,000) became Donetsk; the main street of Minsk switched from Stalin Prospect to Leninsky Prospect. So it went down the line of cities, towns, villages, regions, streets, squares, and out into the country to include one bay, one canal and one mountain peak. The mayor of Stalingrad (pop. 600,000) wanted to do away with one of the legendary names of World War II-a place where over a million men clashed, in the turning point of the war-but had a hard time finding...
King Hussein himself helicoptered to the ceremony. He snipped the tape and engineers turned taps to fill the first, 22-mile-long section of the canal (the rest of its 50-mile length is scheduled to open next year). As the waters rushed in, the Royal Jordanian Army's British-trained pipe band tootled The Campbells are Comin', swarthy-faced men in Arab headdress surged forward to kiss the King's hand, and happy crowds swarmed around Ambassador Macomber crying in their best English, "Hello you, hi, hi!" The U.S. contributed a relatively modest...
...cochlea, which is linked to the eardrum by three small, movable bones of the middle ear. What he saw was that the cochlea reacts to the pitch of a struck note by making different parts of the membrane vibrate within the tiny organ's 2½-turn canal...