Word: coast
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...Moscow parades. This gives rise to a Western suspicion that the Russians are not so advanced in missilery as the Sputniks would indicate. Nevertheless, the U.S. radar posts have "watched" 800-mile flights from the Krasny Yar missile range and from the island of Novaya Zemlya off the northern coast in the Arctic Sea; and the Russians have shot an ICBM thousands of miles. It may be that they have not yet developed a dependable nose cone or solved the re-entry problem (the U.S. Army's Jupiter nose cone was recovered intact, earlier this year, after...
...California (4-2)-dumped Oregon 23-6 to stay unbeaten in Pacific Coast Conference play, edge closer to a spot in the Rose Bowl New Year...
...University of Adelaide; in Adelaide. Born in Yorkshire, Douglas Mawson went to Australia as a child, made his first journey to Antarctica in 1907 under Ernest Shackleton, was one of three men to reach the south magnetic pole. Leading his own expedition in 1911, he discovered George V Coast; and on one of the most legendary Antarctic journeys, he was the only survivor among three men, at one point had to stew his sledge dogs to stay alive. In 1929 he made a third expedition that rough-mapped the coastline of Australia's Australia-sized land claim in Antarctica...
...Leadville. Colo., a mining boom town where David May, a 26-year-old German immigrant, founded a clothing store. David May spread his stores through the Midwest, and his son Morton J. May, Buster May's father and the chairman of May Co., expanded the chain coast to coast. Buster still consults with his father but has run his own show since taking over as chief executive officer...
...flying. His Canadian-born hero, Johnny Pascoe, has been barnstorming the world since 1915 and, now in his 60s, operates a small airfield at back-country Buxton in Tasmania. Flying a mercy mission to rescue a child stricken with appendicitis, Pascoe crashes on a barren stretch of the Tasmanian coast. His skull is fractured, and he is tended only by the child's distraught mother, but his friends rally round. Chief of these is Ronnie Clarke, who volunteers to fly in a doctor through rough weather, over mountains and along the unmapped coast...