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...evening, but in these northern latitudes the sun was still above the horizon. The sea thundered against the great cliffs of Mainland, the largest of the Shetland Islands; in lonely Footabrough inlet brilliant red and purple sea urchins bobbed in the swell along the shore. Out beyond the three-mile limit rode the Ukraina and two other trawlers of a Soviet fishing fleet...
...this sunlit night last week, Crofter Willie Fraser and his son were hoeing turnips in the garden of their low stone cottage near the inlet. They looked up to see a man come racing over the headland. He stumbled once or twice, then reached them, gasping out words in Russian and German, pointing in terror behind him, repeatedly making the gesture of slitting his throat. Recognizing a fugitive, Fraser did the human thing: he hid the man, one Erich Teayn, 32, in his cottage...
...powerful Southern Pacific and its boss, Collis P. Huntington. The S.P. bitterly insisted on a harbor to be located at Santa Monica, where, providentially, S.P. owned the only access route; the Times pounded its fist for a site to the south, free of S.P. domination, at the coastal inlet of San Pedro. With the eager Santa Fe railroad in his corner, Otis won his impassioned fight, watched with satisfaction when the dredges moved into San Pedro and turned a few acres of mud flats into one of the busiest harbors in the world. The city of Los Angeles then annexed...
...where he will be nearly swamped under the crush of 3,000 yodelers, on hand to compete for the tenth national championship. On his Rhine journey he may stop off in Coblenz to hear Johann Strauss's A Night in Venice, waterborne on a float in a quiet inlet of the river. Or he may try a harmonica and accordion festival in Nürnberg, where the best West German bands will be chosen at the end of this month. To escape from the harmonicas, he may try the palace of Herrenchiemsee near Munich, where chamber music will...
...modern explorers will have one great advantage over Tyrell who had to paddle his way back to civilization from Chesterfield Inlet. This year's group will find a plane waiting for them...