Word: miles
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...base that was Lyndon Johnson's touchdown spot on two trips to South Viet Nam. "Cam Ranh Bay doesn't count," he said. "That isn't Viet Nam." In Saigon, he proclaimed: "I believe the record is clear as to which side has gone the extra mile in behalf of peace. Now is the time for the other side to respond...
Last week, on the 157th day of an arcing, 242-million-mile journey across the solar system Mariner 6 reached its destination. In the closest approach to Mars ever achieved by a man-made object, the U.S. spacecraft flew within 2,130 miles of earth's planetary neighbor...
After delivering her complaint to the island's parliament, the Dame of Sark, who is responsible only to Queen Elizabeth II, announced that she planned to surrender the sovereignty of her 3-mile-long-by-H-mile-wide island to neighboring Guernsey, eight miles farther out in the English Channel. Her 575 subjects were aghast. "The Dame has put us in a small boat and pushed us down the river," groused Philip Perree, a hotelkeeper. "We have no wish to be ruled by the bureaucrats of Guernsey...
...Pontiff. Heads of four other African states stood by in a LandRover: Tanzania's Julius Nyerere, Zambia's Kenneth Kaunda, Burundi's Michel Mi-combero and Rwanda's Gregoire Kayi-banda. Then the Pope was off, in an open Lincoln Continental, for the 28-mile ride into Kampala, past welcoming signs saying, "Papa from the Vatican" and "Holy Father, Bless Our House...
...Reward. Since June, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (M.T.A.), which runs the road, has canceled ten to 15 trains a day. Those that do run are usually dirty, intolerably crowded-the L.I.R.R. hauls 160,000 people a day-and often unbelievably late. It is not unknown for a 40-mile trip to take three hours. In the last two months, the L.I.R.R. has had three accidents, in which 175 riders were injured. An M.T.A. executive admits that "The damn railroad is falling apart." Eugene Nickerson, the chief administrator of Long Island's populous Nassau County, last week asked President Nixon...