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...instance, and the 1940 surrender of France, staged at the same spot and in the same car. But never has a meeting been held in a railway car straddling the border between two countries in the middle of a bridge 310 ft. above a churning river, and just downstream from one of the world's mightiest waterfalls...
...drive to a hot spring near Mammoth. Over the thermal source hangs a blind light. The sky presses high and clear; the Milky Way lighting out like the veins on a drunkard's nose, delicate filigree work on an ever-widening expanse of blackness. A couple of hundred yards downstream from the thermal we slip into the runoff. The current is scalding and strong. Briggs talks of Charles Manson. The night is black and steamy and lost--except for the blind light and the scissoring beams of cars lurking on the road a half mile away...
Critics of the dam point out that it has obstructed the natural flow of silt that enriched the soil of farms along the Nile. Thus it has been necessary to increase the use of imported chemical fertilizers on farms downstream from the dam. Environmentalists also contend that elimination of the silt flow has increased the rate of erosion along the Mediterranean coast adjoining the Nile Delta. In addition, they claim that the absence of the organic matter in the silt in the waters at the river's mouth has deprived sardines and shrimp of an adequate food supply...
Higginson said he feels the varsity should shave about four to six seconds off Saturday's time to establish themselves as a good crew. Competition next Saturday for the Biglin Bowl will pit the Crimson against one of the premier spollers of the year, the Technicians from downstream, Dartmouth will also be on hand for the 11 a.m. race...
...gliders. Presumably, Lawson's considerably larger pterosaurs would have found it even harder to get airborne. Yet their remains were found in an area that is -and probably was, during the age of dinosaurs-at least 20 or 30 miles from any mountains. Unless the bones were washed downstream from their original resting place, their locale could mean that the monstrous reptiles were better flyers than anyone had suspected...