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Cambodian troops retreated for ten miles up Highway 4 under North Vietnamese attack. The highway is the only route connecting the deep water port of Kompong Som to Phnom Penh...
Billions of barrels of oil reserves are buried under the stark landscape of Alaska's North Slope. The problem is how to get this treasure to market. The best way, oilmen argue, is to pipe the crude across the breadth of Alaska to the southern port of Valdez, then tanker it to Seattle and Los Angeles. To date, oil companies have spent $300 million on engineering surveys, tanker contracts and special steel pipes. Yet the Federal Government has steadfastly refused to issue a permit to build the 789-mile-long pipeline across public land...
...full, VLCCs are so underpowered (to save building costs) that Europoort, for one, needs two hours to hit top speed of 16.5 knots. As a further result, the behemoths are plagued with the problem of stopping, which can take up to ten miles. By "slaloming," or steering hard port and then hard starboard, with engines full astern in open water, VLCCs can stop within two miles. Japan's Mitsubishi Heavy Industries is now testing a special parachute that it hopes can cut a tanker's stopping distance by onefourth. But with bigger and bigger tankers (perhaps...
...spoke barely a word of the Tahitians' language, understood nothing of their rituals and social structures, never ate yams or fish when he could afford tinned asparagus and claret, and was prone to copy his scenes of native life from tourist photographs purchased in the grubby colonial port of Papeete. The most advertised side of the legend is also false. Gauguin's art was neither freed nor even significantly changed by the South Seas. When he left France in 1891, he was no Sunday painter but a mature artist with a circle of admirers that included Van Gogh...
Everett I. Mendelsohn, professor of the History of Science and a leading advocate of controls on the faculty, was enthusiastic about the commission's re-port and said, "I think it's a very just conclusion, in that it reflects the changing nature of American universities, where decisions and responsibilities are being dispersed more equally among students and administrators...