Word: mi
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...though, will retain 88 military installations on the 454-sq.-mi. island, including the huge Kadena Air Base, which is presently a major reconnaissance, support and transport base for the Indochina war. A high American military official on Okinawa said last week that although the U.S. will control only one-seventh of the land it formerly controlled under the treaty terms, "we will have 95% of what we had before. We are keeping those bases that are essential." Japan will take over 46 small U.S. installations, for which it will pay $320 million in compensation over the next five years...
...farm income. There have been sizable finds of uranium, copper, lead, zinc, nickel, oil and natural gas. A huge bauxite mine is being developed in the remote Arnhem Land in the Northern Territory. But the center of the expansion lies in Western Australia, which occupies 1,000,000 sq. mi. and has about as many residents. At Kalgoorlie, where Herbert Hoover once managed a gold mine, vast nickel strikes have revived long-dormant ghost towns. In the desolate Pilbara region, two railroads, two ports and two brand-new towns have sprung up in the past four years, and more than...
...last romantic, as Rome's daily Il Messagero put it last week, is the way most Italians still think of Raffaele Mi-nichiello, the disgruntled U.S. Marine who commandeered a TWA Boeing 707 at carbine point all the way from California to Rome in 1969. Minichiello's 6,900-mile, 17-hr. 48-min. record for long-distance hijacking still stands, as does his unique place in the folklore of Naples which claims him for its own, though he was born 80 miles away in the mountain town of Melito Irpino. Last week Minichiello set yet another outrageous...
...artist in early 15th century Milan. Nearly all Michelino's work is lost, but most of what remains was recently bought by New York's Pierpont Morgan Library. It consists of a tiny (6¾ in. by 4¾ in.) prayerbook, containing 22 miniatures on vellum that Mi-chelino painted sometime around 1420. John Plummer, the Morgan's curator of medieval and renaissance manuscripts, compares his new treasure with such supreme achievements of manuscript painting as the Tres Riches Heures of the Due de Berry. Michelino's con-'emporaries in Milan could well have agreed...
...been mapped along the length of DNA in the chromosome of so elementary a creature as the digestive-tract bacterium Escherichia coli. The reason: just a teaspoon of E. coli DNA has information capacity approximately equal to that of a computer with a storage capacity of about 100 cu. mi...