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...Liebling had this theory that Lousiana was the westernmost Mediterranean principality, what with its Byzantine politics, and all. If that's true, then Florida is perhaps the northernmost Caribbean principality--ruled by Holiday Inn instead of United Fruit. Subject to coups and missile shots and crazed Cubanos and Ed Gurney and Ed Gurney's ghost, where the great Northeast goes to die of the pulmonary diseases contracted in 40 years of living in the great Northeast, hospitable only to snakes and gators, the Miami Dolphins and Richard Petty, ah Florida--my Florida, home of Danny...

Author: By Dequinces W. Josephson, | Title: Oh, Atlanta | 9/14/1978 | See Source »

...Philippines are an archipelago of approximately 7083 islands situated about 500 miles off the Southeast coast of Asia. Y' Ami, the northernmost island, is 65 miles from Taiwan. Saluag, the southernmost island, is 30 miles east of Borneo...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: So You Think Hourlies Are Tough? | 3/17/1978 | See Source »

...wooded hill separates the northernmost reach of the College's campus--Currier House--from Cambridge's Fresh Pond neighborhood. On that hill, at the fringe of both academia and the real world, sits the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, housing over 300 astrophysicists--the largest group in the country...

Author: By George K. Sweetnam, | Title: Taking It to The Limit | 4/13/1977 | See Source »

Construction workers at the Hakodate civilian airport on Hokkaido, the northernmost of the main Japanese islands, could hardly believe their eyes when a strange and spectacular-looking aircraft, a red star emblazoned on each of its twin tails, suddenly swept in for an unexpected landing. As the plane touched down, a tire blew out, and the plane rolled beyond the end of the mile-long runway before braking to a stop. When the workers rushed closer for a better view, a young man in a gray flying suit and white helmet climbed out, brandishing an automatic pistol. "Get back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTELLIGENCE: Lieutenant Belenko's Gift | 9/20/1976 | See Source »

...west, but another process of settlement is also taking place on the distant coast of the Pacific. Just the week before last, a weary band of 193 Spanish colonists and their families arrived at a large bay on the coast and pitched their tents. This sixth and northernmost Spanish installation in Upper California is on what the Spaniards have named the Bay of San Francisco...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Beyond the Wilderness | 7/4/1976 | See Source »

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