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Kenya Crown Colony, ablaze with Mau Mau revolt, is the northernmost bastion of Britain's East African Empire. Should Suez fall to Egyptian nationalism (see below}, the huge British base at Mackinnon Road, 225 miles southeast of Nairobi, supported by its jet airfields, would almost certainly become the key to British strategy in the western Indian Ocean...
Adams is a good patrician name in Boston. But John Quincy Adams was rediscovered last summer at the northernmost tip of U.S. territory--Point Barrow, Alaska...
Snow-topped Anchor Hill, on Korea's east coast, is the northernmost point of the Eighth Army's 155-mile front. To the east lie the clear blue waters of the Sea of Japan. But" the South Koreans deeply dug in on Anchor's top seldom get a look at the sea or at anything else, for the enemy's artillery is zeroed in on the summit...
...more than 400 m.p.h. toward Hawaii, hundreds of residents of beach areas moved to higher ground, crowded mountain highways. At 1:30 p.m., three medium-size waves struck the northeast shores, washed over highways. One hour later, a 13-ft. wall of water thundered over Mokuleia Beach on northernmost Oahu, flooded several homes and stores. The four waves passed, Hawaii began counting up the damage. As in 1946, northeastern Hilo has suffered the most-$100,000. Casualties: six cows...
...prevent the disappearance of what he terms "an interesting carnivore," Smits has taken the lead in urging the creation of a timber wolf sanctuary on Isle Royale, a rugged, heavily wooded tract in Lake Superior, 48 miles from the northernmost Michigan mainland. Last week, in an attempt to put the Smits plan into execution, the national park service brought to the island four young timber wolves. Three of them had been raised in a zoo, and the fourth, a tawny grey male named Jimmy, was reared by Lee Smits and his wife Peggy. (The Smitses, who turned Jimmy over...