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Practically all of Fleet Street rushed to Punta Arenas, Chile, the world's southernmost city. Sir Francis Chichester, 65, the intrepid, unwavering yachtsman, was approaching Cape Horn-one of the most hazardous passages of his solo trip around the world in the 50-ft. ketch Gipsy Moth IV. Some 30 newsmen were on hand, most with little knowledge about exactly where Sir Francis was and less about how to find him. They set up a pool arrangement under which a few reporters and photographers would be put aboard a British frigate to pursue Gipsy Moth...
...International, Perry reported that Cosmos 112 could not have been launched from either Tyuratam or Kapustin Yar, the two known Russian launch sites, both of which are in the southern part of the Soviet Union. Instead, he suggested, it had been launched from a more northerly site-perhaps the southernmost tip of Novaya Zemlya, an island in the Barents...
...Easy way to win a bet: ask which are the southernmost, northernmost, westernmost and easternmost states. Answers: Hawaii, Alaska, Alaska-and Alaska, which is easternmost because it crosses the 180th meridian...
...Moon. What is enticing the tourists farther afield is not the search for better weather. All the islands of the southernmost state- enjoy a year-round balmy climate (average mean temperature: 75°). And, because of the prevailing northeast trade winds, the southwestern coasts of all of its islands (and not just Oahu) are nearly rain-free all year round...
...latter, commanders in the field insist that at least 750,000 men will be required to permit the allies to seal off the South's sievelike borders and to send perhaps two divisions into the Mekong Delta, the southernmost section of the country. "Something has got to be done in the delta or you aren't going to win this war," said a high-ranking U.S. officer in Saigon. "Half the people in the country live there. We've got to control the delta, but we haven't got the men to send in there...