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...centre of gravity low as a ship's. And like a ship, the Imperial was made to float. Instead of sinking deep piers to bedrock, the architect rested his building on hundreds of slender, pointed 8-ft. piles, distributing the weight evenly on a 60-ft. pad of mud...
...remote battlefield where Chinese troops, contrary to expectations, had been holding their lines for months against Japanese attacks. The account of his trip through the rain-sodden Chin River Valley appeared in the Dec. 18,1939, issue. "All through the valley," White wrote, "tiny Japanese garrisons were mired in mud, unable to communicate with one another and slowly starving. When off duty, simple soldiers would sneak out of their garrison posts in twos and threes and rove the countryside looking for abandoned chickens and eggs-many were caught and killed by the Chinese. The Chinese have advanced during...
...slandering pro-choice ones. Four particularly intense campaigns were against the re-election bids of liberal Senators George McGovern, Frank Church, Birch Bayh and John Culver. In the McGovern campaign, the New Right ran a "stalking borse" candidate whose objective was not to win, but simply to throw mud at the incumbent. Similarly, Church was the target of a conservative media blitz. As part of its anti-Church campaign, the National Catholic Political Action Committee ran an ad claiming the Senator had voted to increase his own salary although Church had actually opposed that measure...
...books, in which the hero wages war on Italian tribes and fulfills his divine destiny to found the Roman Empire, showed the bloody imprint of The Iliad. Furthermore, Aeneas himself, compared with the Homeric heroes Odysseus and Achilles, began to strike many readers as a stick-in-the-mud: pius (Virgil's repeated adjective), the kind of sobersides who would abandon the woman who loves him to her funeral pyre rather than miss out on his mission...
...Sahara sandstorm, the little war in the Central African nation of Chad turned increasingly ominous and ugly last week. With the help of intensive Libyan bombing raids, rebel forces seized the northern town of Faya-Largeau (pop. 7,000). In the process, they reduced much of the mud-and-brick oasis to rubble. As many as one-third of the Chadian government's 3,000 soldiers were reported to be dead, wounded or captured, and hundreds more were stranded in the north. Others, retreating before what the government called "murderous nonstop" Libyan air strikes, proceeded...