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...republic and sign an alternative agreement that would effectively terminate Panama's existence. It was never clear whether John Hay or President Theodore Roosevelt concurred in this remarkable warning. The result of this act was the construction by the U.S. of the Panama Canal within a ten-mile-wide strip of land extending from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean, one of the great engineering achievements of all time and a boon to the seagoing nations of the world. Within the Canal Zone, our country was granted in perpetuity "all the rights, power and authority. . . which the U.S. would...
Paul McNulty finished first for Harvard in 30:15 but could not push past Dartmouth's three frontrunners. Jim Sapienza won for the Big Green in 29:02 on the 5.8-mile, hilly Hanover course. Felix Rippey, Eric Schuler, Paul Gompers and Paul Kent finished 7th, 8th, 9th and 10th to round out the Crimson top five...
...Sunday they buried Timely Writer near another immortal--the filly Ruffian on Belmont's grassy infield. They buried him quietly, one-eighth of a mile from the post, fitting symbol of the colt's shortened career. There won't be any future generations of Timely Writer breezing around American tracks in 'his fine tradition. But people in Boston and elsewhere will remember this horse for his extraordinary courage, as he lies on Long Island forever one furlong from the finish line...
Cornell's Grant Whitney placed first on the 3.1-mile course, and the entire competition came down to the finish of Harvard's third and fourth runners relative to those of Cornell...
...follows the real-life story of bankrupt Irishman who dreams of producing the operas Carcuso in the Brazilian jungle. To raise the necessary capital to back his production, he decides to cash in on the rubber boom by taking a steamship to virgin tracts of jungle, carrying it a mile overland to an otherwise inaccessible river. The real Fitzcarraldo (so named because the natives could not pronounce Fitzgerald) cut a 20-ton steamship into 15 pieces to accomplish his made task. Herzog, in his reenactment, does not regard that as enough of a challenge, opting to haul...