Word: peninsulas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Seldom has Hong Kong's business been better. Big hotels such as the fustily genteel Peninsula and Repulse Bay are packed with tourists. The repair yards of the Hong Kong & Whampoa Dock Co. hum with ships coming and going. Passengers crowd the Star Ferry Co. boats and the Peak Tramways' cable cars, which provide the most spectacular 10? rides in the world. China Light & Power Co. is adding four 60-megawatt turbines at a total cost of $34 million...
Reid admits that it was a cursory turning of life which bound him up with the Iberian peninsula. He spent his childhood and youth on Arran, an island off the western coast of Scotland. After World War II years in the East Indies, where he served "in what we call the Royal Navy," he returned to Scotland and entered the University of St. Andrew's. Then, after a number of years in France, he came to the United States, where he taught "off and on" at Sarah Lawrence. He first went to Spain in 1952, primarily to find...
...Khrushchev statement also warned of "an even more dangerous" incident which occurred yesterday when a U.S. reconnaissance plane flew over the Chuketski Peninsula- the Soviet territory closest to the State of Alaska. The Soviet premier asked that such flights over Russia as well as surveillance flights over Cuba be stopped. In his reply, President Kennedy said he regretted this incident and would do everything possible to prevent a recurrence...
Jahn is a European (nationality not specified) who has sailed his small ketch to what is presumably Nova Scotia or the Gaspe Peninsula, in order to spend a year testing some mining theories. Maria is the crippled daughter of the customs officer, a wise, learned man who has been paralyzed for 20 years. The young people cannot marry while Maria's father is alive, nor can they let him know that his life is thus a burden. The action of the book be gins as Jahn and his small crew set sail again for Europe. Maria gives...
Britain's Aden Colony consists of 75 sq. mi. of bleak volcanic rock at the southwestern tip of the Arabian peninsula. Though hot as hell's hinges, Aden is a prosperous city of some 300,000; its port, one of the world's busiest, has virtually the only good harbor on the 3,400-mile sea haul from Suez to India. Aden is also headquarters for the 40,000 troops of Britain's Middle East Command who stand guard over the Persian Gulf. In the setting sun of empire, Britain has been shoved out of bases...