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...Line. To carry out both functions without delay, NORAD must rely on the almost instantaneous coordination of all its parts, beginning with the outlying alarm bells of the newly completed, $600 million Arctic portion of the DEW line. Stretching for 3,000 miles along the northern rim of the continent, this line includes more than 50 stations whose surveillance radars interlock like an electric warning fan twelve miles high, from Alaska's Cape Lisburne to Canada's Baffin Island...
...stupidities of the Irish church, the puritanism of its priests, the total intellectual poverty of his teachers, the misery of his own poor home, the bitter loneliness of that inexperienced, conquered, timid and emotionally besotted island on the rim of the world...
...financed by the University of Pennsylvania Museum and the Church Divinity School of the Pacific, where he teaches Biblical Hebrew). Four feet below the surface at El-Jib Pritchard found the walls of houses, then evidence of a 26-ft.-thick wall surrounding the town, and finally the rim of a pool 37 ft. across...
...think the University sent him to France about ten years ago. Look at this little table. I've turned down over a hundred dollars for it." After pointing out some glasses, Goldman advised '"Listen to the ring. That's the sign of good crystal. He tapped the rim of a glass and nodded approval of the sound...
...turned out the job was one of the toughest in Big Steel's history. The company had to plant huge towers at the cave and on the rim, sling light cables across the chasm by helicopter, then use them to haul across a 20-ton, 1½-in-thick main cable. In summer, 130° heat down in the canyon made tools so hot they blistered workers' hands. All food and supplies had to be flown in from Los Angeles 435 miles away; some 200 tons of equipment (compressors, hoists, welding machines) was airlifted in pieces and assembled...