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...race barreled northward toward Canada, the snow grew deeper and the trail became a successive range of steep moguls. In the drifting snow, the racers bobbed and weaved, plunging from view only to emerge again and fly across a farmer's driveway or a roadside culvert. Occasionally they would tear onto the shoulder of the road, skimming around a car or truck before hurtling back into the ditch. Driving a 450-lb. snowmobile at high speed on rough terrain is like riding a brahma bull-an exercise in keen judgment and balance. As Driver Al Bergquist, an Illinois farmer...
...sunrise on the morning of his first exam, the sloth finally lifted himself from his chair and began to stumble northward toward Harvard Yard. He arrived there on time, but misread the location for Physics 907 on the exam schedule, unwittingly plopping himself down in the exam room for Adolescent Psych. Before a proctor could hand him a copy of the exam, the sloth was furiously scribbling quadratic equations into his blue book. But soon he lost patience, and digressed to a metaphysical discussion of his sexual malaise and acne problems...
...Southern journalism have largely passed from the scene, but the newspapers of the South are probably better than ever. More and more Dixie dailies are starting to cover national news seriously, commit money and staff to investigative reporting and pay their talent well enough to halt its traditional northward migration. Among prominent defectors: Tom Wicker and Clifton Daniel of the New York Times, David Brinkley of NBC, Dan Rather of CBS. Five Southern newspapers best exemplify the new stirring in Southern journalism. They are, in alphabetical order...
...morning last week, a contingent of eleven American and South Korean officers and security guards were escort ing five Korean workers while they trimmed foliage from a large poplar that partially blocked the view northward from an Allied guardhouse. At 10:45 a.m., according to the U.N. Command's subsequent account, a small group of North Koreans appeared at the site and demanded that the work be stopped. The Americans refused. A few minutes later, a truckload of some 30 additional North Korean troops arrived at the scene. An officer shouted "Chukyo!" -the order to kill. The North Koreans...
...French) would view any American invading force as "liberators." No one properly reckoned on the conservatism and clannishness of the French-speaking peasantry, however, to say nothing of the influence of the church. The results are by now only too well known: as General Montgomery fought his way northward, occupying St. John's and Montreal, he enlisted few Canadian recruits despite his generous bonus offer. That virtually doomed the expedition even before the defeat last January at Quebec, where Montgomery was killed...