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Dates: during 1960-1969
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They were furious when Kenya got the territory from Britain as part of its in dependence package in 1963, and ever since, the Somalis have trained and equipped the terrorists. Like a small-scale Viet Cong, the shifta have am bushed army patrols, sown vast networks of road mines, and abducted and tortured village headmen. Their raiders have killed at least 645 civilians for not cooperating with them. But lately the Kenyan government has been successfully striking back-largely by forcing the nomadic tribes to settle down where they can be kept under scrutiny...
...nuclear-powered desalination plants, but by efficient use of simple diesel-electric engines like those that now provide power to remote communities all over the world. A pilot project on Mexico's Gulf of California is already accomplishing in miniature what Hodges hopes to achieve on a global scale...
Loyal to Jim? With its many colleges and universities, Boston has a higher-than-average share of young adults in its population. The disease detectives rate the schools not on the basis of academic excellence but on sexual activity as revealed by VD. On this scale, Harvard is tops, and M.I.T. is lowest...
...vacuum before it can be requalified for flight. Such testing has pushed the initial launch date for the Apollo series to early summer of next year. But this winter the spacecraft will face its baptism by fire in Houston, when NASA engineers try to set a full-scale Apollo ablaze under varied atmospheric conditions...
...Grand Scale. When Kaiser needed more cement for his prewar construction projects, he founded a cement company and one to supply sand and gravel. As an industrialist he followed this idea on a grander scale. Because steel shipments were slow, he organized Kaiser Steel at Fontana, Calif., with a $123 million Reconstruction Finance Corp. loan that brought considerable criticism from Congress and Wall Street alike. He dabbled in airplanes, and with Howard Hughes conceived the idea of a ten-engine cargo plane that never got off the drafting board. Later he founded Kaiser Aluminum...