Word: inland
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After the Indians and guerrillas had moved about six miles inland and seized the village of Chaugacha, Pakistani resistance halted the advance. In the counterattacks that followed, the first tank battle of the war broke out. In ten hours of fighting, Pakistani forces said, they destroyed eight Indian tanks and damaged ten others; they admitted losing seven tanks. Next day, Pakistani forces called up an air strike, sending four Sabre jets on Indian positions. Indian Gnats, lightweight jet fighters, intercepted the planes within Indian territory, and shot down three of them. Two of the Pakistani pilots who bailed out were...
...great piles of earth, up to hundreds of feet in diameter. Some of the mounds are shaped like animals, so vast in circumference that their forms could not have been fully perceived at ground level by their creators. Mound building had ceased by the time the first Europeans probed inland in the 16th century. But traces of the practice persisted in the burial rites of such tribes as the Creeks and the Natchez...
Died. Edward L. Ryerson, 84, civic-minded chairman of the immense Inland Steel Co. between 1940 and 1953; in Chicago. Though he once claimed to "resent the idea of being introduced or publicly identified as a representative of big business," Ryerson was one of the steel industry's most prominent and articulate spokesmen. After his 1953 retirement from Inland Steel, Ryerson's continuing participation in numerous Chicago community organizations earned him the title "Mr. Welfare...
Local Monster. No one in Dunnellon, a lazy, little (pop. 1,146) inland town near Ocala, is above the Chamber of Commerce come-on. The town bills itself as the "Home of the World's Largest Bass," and everywhere from the Dinner Bell Restaurant to Bass Galore Village ("Fishing Headquarters, U.S.A.") are mounted specimens to prove it. Up at Joe L. Cobb Inc., Realtors, Joe has a photograph on the wall memorializing the morning he and a friend boated 18 bass totaling 124 Ibs. in "2½ wild and wonderful hours." Down at Bucky's Sports Center...
...Wimbledon. It seems as if nearly every Australian child grows up brandishing a tennis racket, but it is not an easy sport for an aborigine to crack. Aborigines are Australia's forgotten people, living mainly in shanty settlements at the edge of inland and outback towns. Still, there was no denying Evonne. She began training with the Barellan tennis club when she was six. Four years later the club president, a retired local farmer named Bill Kurtzmann, entered her in a tournament in nearby Naranndera. It turned out that there was no youth division, so the ten-year...