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Between the cozy certitudes of 19th century New England and the savage, uncharted Arctic Ocean, there was a compelling connection. It was the bowhead whale. A fat, amiable, elegant creature who wound and warbled (in middle C) through the ice pack on his northward journey each spring, Baleana mysticetus grew up to 75 ft. long, weighed about a ton a foot, and returned fortunes to the Quaker entrepreneurs of New Bedford who sold his blubber and bones to make candles and corsets...
Twenty-four hours later the calm was again broken-this time by the deafening roar of dozens of South Vietnamese air force warplanes taking off from Bien Hoa. Loaded with 500-and 750-lb. bombs, the planes headed northward on a mission to avenge the previous day's attack. Their primary target: the city of Loc Ninh, the "administrative center" of the Viet Cong, 62 miles away. Saigon insisted that its bombs hit only military targets. The Viet Cong claimed that bombs fell on Loc Ninh's marketplace and infirmary, killing 42 civilians...
...other side of the lines, Rome Correspondent Wilton Wynn reached Cairo after an 800-mile, cross-desert taxi ride from Benghazi and was one of 14 newsmen allowed to move up to the Sinai front. "After traveling about 25 miles northward along the front," he reports, "our convoy came to a halt when an artillery shell exploded 300 yds. away. Then an Israeli Skyhawk streaked past. Later newsmen saw smoke rising from what they thought was a bomb hit. But the unit commander said it was the plane, which had been shot down." Diplomatic Editor Jerrold Schecter, usually based...
...infiltration commando force with tanks, halftracks and artillery, first by barge and later across bridges hastily constructed north of the Great Bitter Lake. By week's end the force of 15,000 men was making headway in a three-pronged assault on the western bank of the canal: northward toward Ismailia, southward toward Port Suez and westward toward Cairo...
...week's end, the Egyptians had not taken the Sinai and the Syrians apparently had suffered a major reversal in the Golan Heights as Israeli tank brigades broke through the Arab lines and advanced northward in the direction of Damascus...