Word: detour
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...South Africa's neighbors called for an economic boycott, to include the banning of South African aircraft from airports and airspace. By last week an air curtain had closed African skies to South African Airways, whose proud symbol is a winged springbok, forcing its planes into a tortuous detour...
...quietly signed last May with Portugal, its like-minded ally, South Africa is putting up $5,300,000 to help construct a jet airport on the Cape Verde island of Sal as an additional refueling stop. South African Minister of Transport Ben Schoeman assured everyone that the island-hopping detour is every bit as safe as the old routes. "We are flying and will keep flying," he vowed. The airline has already launched an advertising campaign extolling the scenic charms of such offbeat places as Luanda and Las Palmas, and a Cape Town columnist eloquently extolled the uses of adversity...
...understanding boss," said the chauffeur as he nicked a dustcloth over the Rolls-Royce convertible. And small wonder, for the "boss" is Andrei Porumbeanu, 38, a chauffeur himself until he got a divorce and shifted into high life by marrying Runaway Heiress Gamble Benedict, 22, whose grandmother tried to detour the romance. But now Granny is dead, the happy couple snugly ensconced in a 26-room villa in Erlenbach, Switzerland, where Gambi's inheritance makes life tolerable and the photographers drop by once in a while to snap them with their two handsome sons. Gheorghe, 2. and Gregory, three...
...from the Start. These are the main stages planned: 1) the blasting out of a mile-long channel to detour the Nile around the main dam; at one point the channel will go underground through six rock tunnels (see map) and activate the turbines of a power station; 2 ) the construction of an upstream cofferdam to steer the Nile into its new bed. and of a second cofferdam downstream so that the river will not seep back into the dam site after its detour; 3) the building of the main dam itself, which cannot begin until the channel...
...diameter that will distort the lines of force of the earth's magnetic field. The bubble will probably disappear after 30 to 40 minutes, but while it lasts, it will be an obstacle to the free movement of particles in the radiation belt. Some of them will detour around it and continue on their way. Others, diverted downward, will be caught by the earth's atmosphere. But AEC scientists are certain that the bubble will be too small to affect more than a few percent of the belt's particles. Any major effect on the belt...