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...Sattahip's fuel pipeline system will eventually extend to Korat, where the U.S. Army's 9th Logistical Command has already stockpiled enough guns, tanks, trucks and ammunition for a full division. U.S. and Thai engineers are constructing the Bangkok Bypass, a strategic highway to carry vital traffic northward past the capital. It will have the side effect, as did the $20 million Friendship Highway completed two years ago, of opening up vast interior regions of the nation to the capital's culture and economy...
...Minutes to Swim. On race day, a 20-knot crosswind was kicking up 10-ft. swells in the northward-flowing Gulf Stream, and visibility was down to half a mile. But away they went anyhow, 31 boats roaring out of Biscayne Bay into the heaving Gulf Stream. Within minutes, last year's Griffith winner, Bill Wishnick, was back at the dock: his co-driver Allen Brown had smashed both ankles on the jolting deck of their 28-ft. Broad Jumper. About the same time, Gar Wood Jr. bounced Orca onto a sand bar off Cape Florida, clambered...
...main body of its army, to Napoleon. At this point, the Russians lumbered up. Napoleon chased them down the Danube, captured Vienna and carted off 100,000 muskets, 2,000 artillery pieces and a virtually inexhaustible supply of ammunition, while the Russians and a few thousand leftover Austrians escaped northward to Olmütz to wait for reinforcements...
...sources. At 5:18, the 300,000-kw. influx reversed; in seconds, 1.5 million kw. were surging northward, draining the city at its moment of peak demand. Before Nellis could halt the outflow by cutting Con Ed off from CANUSE, lights began flickering all over the city until only a scintilla of orange glowed from each bulb. For an instant, the lights surged on again; and then, like a theater at curtain time, New York sank into darkness...
...column marched 400 miles northward, formally took possession of King Lobengula's vassal state of Mashonaland, and began staking out their plots. The old King was dismayed. "I thought you came to dig gold," he wrote the British South Africa Co.'s board of directors, "but it seems you have come to rob me of my people and my country as well...