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...also has a sophomre named Herbert Doyle who is from Nova Scotia and is something of an unknown quantity. "I've heard of a very good runner around here who halls from somewhere up in the maritime area, and Doyle may be the one," McCurdy said...
With some 10,000 state fire fighters, militiamen, federal troops and volunteers, Paraná officials are concentrating more on saving populated areas than fighting the flames themselves. No town has been totally burned. The biggest victory was saving Cidade Nova, site of Brazil's largest paper mill. It took 17 bulldozers and hundreds of fire fighters clearing a two-mile-wide fire lane around the town to check the flames. Though 70% of the mill's forest reserves were wiped out, the mill and town were saved...
...when he personally called in Soviet tanks to crush the revolution. Finding that a lighter yoke yields greater economic prosperity and less political opposition, he has given key managerial jobs to nonparty technicians-and fired inefficient Red bureaucrats. In Budapest coffeehouses the twist has given way to the bossa nova and the Madison. Restrictions against travel have been lifted; last year 6,000 Hungarians were allowed to take trips to the West, a 400% increase over 1961, even though the frontier with Austria is still studded with minefields...
...joint enterprises that the people of the U.S. have ever undertaken." With Canada as a junior partner, the U.S. again will aim to harness the 18-ft. ocean tides of Passamaquoddy Bay on the Maine border and use them to generate electric power for New England, New Brunswick and Nova Scotia (see map). The project, said an Interior Department report, would do "as much for New England as Grand Coulee Dam has done for the Pacific Northwest...
Bombardment by Radar. Along the curving path of the shadow, which slips between Montreal and Quebec, cuts Maine in two, and grazes the southern tip of Nova Scotia, scientists will deploy their strange instruments. They will photograph the moon-covered sun in every available way, shoot rockets into the shadow. A German group will check Einstein's theory of relativity by photographing stars that appear to be close to the sun to see how much their light is bent by the sun's gravitation. Distant radio telescopes will bombard the moon with radar waves so that observers...