Word: nearly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Near week's end, Rockefeller aides let it be known that Rocky had not said it all at Puerto Rico; that the Governor well realized that there is only one true and final poll on the presidency: the general election. Nelson Rockefeller prepared to make his position clearer...
...desert settlement of Hammoudia, some 25 miles down the sand track from Reggan in the southwest French Sahara, is the front gate of a huge military reserve where 4,500 French technicians and troops work among the intricate gadgets of the Atomic Age. Near by are underground workshops, rows of air-conditioned huts, and an airstrip fit for jets. To the south is the emptiness of the Tanezrouft-the "thirst country" of the central Sahara -where France will most likely test its late starter in the atomic race: a model T bomb too big for their airplanes and too crude...
...island, a record 40 inches of rain fell onto the rocky hills, then raced down in torrents that carried tumbling rocks the size of pumpkins along with them to batter dikes on the plain below. Changhua, a city of 70,000 people, was inundated. At one village near by, 15 people, marooned on a knoll, saved themselves by clinging to the tails of water buffalo that swam to dry land...
Next night the C46 returned, flown by Colonel José Antonio Soto, Batista's personal pilot, and carrying nine anti-Castro rebels. From near by, Castro himself happily joined the cries of "Down with Fidel!"-it was such a well-baited trap. As soon as the rifles, ammunition, hand grenades and submachine guns were unloaded, Morgan's men clapped the dumfounded invaders under arrest. In a flurry of gunfire from the plane, two of the invaders and two of Morgan's men were killed...
...Coastal States Gas Producing Co. at 16? per thousand cu. ft. (with escalator clause), biggest such deal in years. Coastal will build a ten-inch pipeline from the field in Duval and Jim Wells counties to Associated's recycling (i.e., processing) plant 25 miles away near Corpus Christi, hopes to get Federal Power Commission approval in three months. Texas Illinois Natural Gas Pipeline Co. already has an option to buy the gas for the Chicago area. Over the next 20 years, Associated will take in at least $250 million from its new discovery...