Word: coasts
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...limit. In the U.S. the Marines have their 2nd Division (20,000 men), at Camp Lejeune, N.C., in combat readiness-an Atlantic reserve that must maintain seagoing battalion-landing teams with the Navy's Sixth Fleet in the Mediterranean, and for the Caribbean. Combat ready on the West Coast, the 28th Marine Regiment (about 5,000 men) is rattling around in California's Camp Pendleton, a bare skeleton force whose departure would empty the West of Marines...
Using magnetic-field data ranging back to A.D. 1670, Physicist Keith McDonald of the Environmental Science Services Administration and Robert Gunst of the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey have calculated that the field's strength has decreased by 15% in the past three centuries. If the decline continues at the present rate, they believe, the magnetic field will fade away completely in 2,023 years...
Duke expects to join the fold despite its loss to North Carolina State in the semi-finals of the Atlantic Coast Tournament. North Carolina held the ball for almost 15 minutes in the second half in gaining a record 12-10 victory...
North Carolina St. put on a freeze, holding the ball for 13 and a half minutes at a time, to upset sixth-ranked Duke, 12-10 in the semi-finals of the Atlantic Coast Conference Basketball Tournament last night. Duke led 4-2 at the half...
Died. Hugo Benioff, 68, foremost U.S. seismologist who turned the art of predicting earthquakes into a science; of a heart attack; in Mendocino, Calif. After charting geological faults along the U.S. West Coast, Benioff warned in 1949 that the forces that caused the 1906 San Francisco earthquake were building toward further upheavals, a prediction borne out by the California earthquakes of 1950 and 1952. His variable-reluctance seismograph, which records tiny changes in a magnetic field, after 30 years is still standard around the world...