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...quakes ripped the earth, crumpled dams and toppled buildings across one of China's most populous regions (see map), a swatch of Hopei province bordering the Gulf of Po Hai and encompassing not only Peking and its 7.5 million inhabitants but also China's third largest city, Tientsin (pop. 4.3 million), and Tangshan (pop. 1 million), an industrial and mining center. China's government publicly admitted only "great losses to the people, life and property" and turned aside foreign offers of aid, but it also rallied troops and civilian rescue teams to deal with the disaster...
...located; it was described by members of a French friendship delegation visiting there as "ruined totally, 100%." The consequences for Chinese industry may be severe, since the city is both a center for the production of rail locomotives, diesel engines and other heavy machinery and the country's largest single producer of coal. Many miners, who work in shifts round the clock, were feared entombed in the deep caverns beneath the city...
American, the third largest carrier, showed a $24.8 million profit for the quarter, v. a loss of $1.5 million last year. Like the other airlines, American was favored by extraordinarily good business in June as school let out, vacations began and Bicentennial travelers lined up at airline ticket counters around the nation. In June alone, TWA earned $24.4 million, more than four times the total for June of last year; the performance was enough to pull the nation's second largest carrier into the black for the second quarter and to cut losses for the first half from...
...second-largest role--though much less than half the size of Rosalind's--belongs to the hero Orlando, the object of Rosalind's sporting. Kenneth Welsh makes him sufficiently fervent and brave. Orlando is Shakespeare's most athletic hero, and Welsh is stocky and muscular. But as staged here he certainly doesn't deserve the prize in the wrestling match, though this is not the reason the evil duke, in a nice touch, takes the purse of money away from him. As Charles, Edwin Owens speaks far better than we would expect of a professional wrestler...
Barghoorn said Mars seems to be the only body other than Earth in the solar system which could support life. But some scientists have recently suggested that life might exist on Titan, the largest moon of Saturn, because it has a dense atmosphere...