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...mile-long glacier originates high in a watershed east of Valdez, where it is fed by massive snowfalls. From there, it flows inexorably down toward Columbia Bay, where it terminates on a shoal across the fjord in shallow water. Like all glaciers that end at the sea, Columbia continually "calves" or drops chunks of ice off its face as it moves forward. This process can speed up dramatically when changing climatic conditions cause a glacier to begin thinning out. This decrease in thickness can destroy a glacier's delicate equilibrium and radically increase calving in a process called "drastic...
...flotillas at the Battle of Jutland in World War I. But his finest hour came in April 1944, when, as a vice admiral, he directed a crippling aircraft carrier attack on Hitler's last remaining giant battleship, the 45,000-ton Tirpitz, as it lay in a Norwegian fjord...
...they talked, Carter was attracted by Mondale's deep concern for social issues, a set of beliefs that reflect the hardy strain of populism and reformism that grew up in America's Northern plains. Frederick Mundal, his great-grandfather, emigrated from Norway's Sogne Fjord in 1856 to become a homesteading farmer in Minnesota. The candidate's father, Theodore Sigvaard Mondale, was a farmer and a land speculator who became a Methodist minister before being wiped out in the '20s by a series of misfortunes-including the long and financially draining illness of his first...
...insurance money that they stand to pay to Olympic Maritime S.A. would be the largest insurance payoff in maritime history (previous record: $27 million). For Christina Onassis, hardly. The Olympic Bravery had been headed only for expensive unemployment. Its maiden voyage had been destined to end in a Norwegian fjord, where it was to join at least 385 other supertankers lying idle round the world, waiting for oil shipments to pick up. Potential mothballing costs: as much as $20,000 a day. The insurance payment would enable Christina to pay off the ship's $42 million mortgage and recoup...
...Sweden's Volvo heavily stress not only the car's design but also its high-quality Swedish workmanship, which purportedly helps drivers survive the rigors of Scandinavian winters and tough traffic laws. That ad campaign is soon destined for a trip back to the old drawing fjord. Last week Volvo announced plans to build a $100 million assembly plant in Chesapeake, Va., that will turn out some 30,000 cars annually by 1976 and 100,000 a year after 1980−all that it will need for the U.S. market (1972 U.S. sales: 54,000 units). Volvo will...