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...Real Risks." To back up Lo's bluster, Red China passed the word that its 200 million-man (and woman) militia had gone into serious training. The mainland press reported shrilly that units on the Yunnan border were engaged in intensive bayonet and machine-gun drill; men and women in blue boiler suits marched briskly through Peking streets with rifles slung...
...Chronology. As the SEC told it, the case involved camouflaged claims, secret pacts, whispered tips to friends, a "false and misleading" press release and some substantial paper fortunes. The SEC chronology: On Nov. 10, 1963, Texas Gulf geologists, headed by Kenneth Darke, were drilling on a claim near Timmins when Darke pulled out an impressive core sample of high-grade copper and zinc-so impressive that he hiked ten miles in the snow to reach his Jeep, then drove into town to call company officials. They notified President Stephens immediately, told the geologists to keep in daily touch. The company...
...three hours before they got there because of all those vital parts in the way. The list of items that had to be delicately dissected and pulled aside reads like an atlas of anatomy. The surgeons had to fracture the top vertebra with a Hall air-driven drill, and then the seclusive clivus was exposed at last. They attacked this with an air drill, and cut a 1-in. by 2-in. window in the bone's sloping forward face. This exposed the tumor...
Hoare sent out an appeal for more mercenaries, and by last week he had recruited and trained 270 new whites from South Africa, Rhodesia and Britain, who got six weeks of drill at the Congo's Kamina airbase, then moved north with Hoare to perform their first big mission-isolation of the rebels from their sanctuaries in Sudan and Uganda...
...world-I repeat, in the world." Five space-tracking stations in the islands now spot missiles and satellites. A hundred miles northeast of the island of Maui, a place where the ocean is three miles deep has been chosen for the $71 million Project Mohole-an attempt to drill three miles through the earth's crust to the underlying mantle. A recent business-sponsored survey projected a possible annual income of $100 million for state firms from oceanic re search...