Word: miles
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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India's 1,300-mile Himalayan frontier with China is one of the world's most unlikely battlegrounds. Monsoon rains flood its approaches in summer, and snows blanket its jagged peaks and passes in winter. All year round, the thin air gnaws at the lungs and vitality of human trespassers in the fastness. Across the forbidding landscape, some 125,000 to 150,000 Chinese troops and more than 300,000 Indian jawans (infantrymen) are positioned in edgy, continuous confrontation...
...Acorn Stakes at Belmont by six lengths, packing 121 lbs. and tying the one-mile track record of 1 min. 34 4/5 sec.-set in 1942 by the famed Count Fleet, carrying only 116 lbs. She followed that up with a ten-length victory in Belmont's 1¼-mile Mother Goose Stakes and a twelve-length triumph in the 1¼-mile Coaching Club American Oaks, thereby becoming the first thoroughbred in history to capture the filly Triple Crown. By post time at the $57,950 Delaware Oaks two weeks ago, Dark Mirage had just about...
...Hovercraft, after all, made the 26-mile crossing in just 35 minutes, nearly an hour less than the ferry's timetable...
...wide dam that by 1974 will generate 12 billion kw-h of electricity per year, 2 billion more than Egypt's Aswan High Dam. Eventually, the dam will become a sort of common-market grid for white-dominated southern Africa. Most of the power will travel 800-mile-long lines to Pretoria and feed South Africa's industry, but Mozambique's other neighbors, Rhodesia and probably Malawi, will get their share...
...vast development scheme designed to transform the wilderness, which is infested with tsetse flies and mosquitoes, into what the Portuguese like to think will become the Ruhr of Africa. Among the area's natural resources are known reserves of nickel, copper and asbestos, plus a twelve-mile-long seam of coal and iron deposits that could produce an annual 1,000,000 tons...