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...summit: the summit at Clapier pass is flat enough and big enough to hold a Hannibal-sized army. Other points that tally with old descriptions: from Clapier pass, the Po River Valley is visible, and a steep trail leads down in the direction of Turin. Hoyte's next step: to prove the route was suitable for elephant travel within the time taken by Hannibal...
...guajiros that they were in Havana to do a political job. Railing against the "infamous" foreign press and "foreign plutocrats," he defended his one-man rule as "Athenian democracy" and warned that "the guajiros are here with their machetes to defend the revolution, and their machetes are sharp." Next day Castro's labor leaders closed down the city for an hour with a general strike, "demanding" that he return to office...
...apace. The scientists may soon beat the problem with a nuclear reactor to provide heat and power for a year on one fueling. The first small portable reactor, now being built by Alco Products, Inc. at Dunkirk, N.Y. for the U.S. Army, is scheduled for installation in the Arctic next year. When it works, the Arctic frontier will indeed push on and on toward the North Pole...
...month stint in West Germany's army. With bitter Teutonic irony, he enlarged upon his refusal to be drafted: "My conscience forbids me to serve those who judged and condemned my father. Moreover, in performing military service, which might be construed as aiding in the preparation for a next war, I might some day suffer the same unpleasant consequences that my father...
...until the middle of June, when the young were safely hatched, did Waterston tell his proud secret. By then the young birds were almost as big as squabs on their diet of a pound of fish daily, and the written record of their family life filled 1,250 pages. Next year, if all goes well, there will be more osprey families on bonny Scotland's barbed-wire braes...