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...military planners call it "the red envelope." Shaped like a triangular flap, the 10,000-sq.-mi. zone encompasses the industrial heartland of North Viet Nam (see map). Yet, as though sealed off by an invisible cordon, its cluster of strategic installations around Hanoi and Haiphong has hardly been grazed by the war, for the U.S. has proscribed bombing raids on the triangle-save for some Soviet SAM missile sites and a few minor targets-ever since its day-in, day-out raids against the North began last February...
...heart of the matter are the "lost territories" east of the Oder and Neisse rivers-a 44,130-sq.-mi. chunk of prewar Germany that was ceded to Poland in 1945 by the victors of World War II. In the process, nearly 12 million Germans were uprooted and sent streaming westward in an apocalyptic migration that took 2,000,000 lives. Some 8,000,000 "expellees" remain in West Germany today, and though many have lost much of their fierce irredentist zeal, their presence is a constant reminder to the German government of the need to regain the lost territories...
...wage was to have been increased from 27 to 35 rubles a month to 50 to 60 rubles a month; instead it has only recently been raised to 40 to 45 rubles a month ($44.40 to $50). Most serious for the Soviets, for whom cramped accommodation (less than 8 sq. meters of living space per capita is the urban average) and lack of privacy are the greatest physical hardships, is the fact that the seven-year plan's target for urban residential construction (650 to 660 million sq. meters) will be underfulfilled by at least...
...suburban Toronto, a technician twisted a control handle to the right to raise the voltage. In the next three seconds, the $265 million 16-turbine Sir Adam Beck Generating Station No. 2 (see map) sent 1,600,000 kw. of power careering out of control through 80,000 sq. mi. of the northeastern U.S. and Canada. Thus, at 5:16 p.m. on Black Tuesday, began history's biggest power failure (TIME cover...
...doctors rejoined the posterior tibial artery; it was 51 hours after the injury that blood began to flow back into Liang's foot. The anterior tibial artery and three veins were quickly rejoined, muscles were sutured, the Achilles' tendon was repaired, nerves were retied, and a 130-sq. cm. skin graft was laid over the torn-up area around Liang's ankle. The entire operation lasted eight hours. The skin graft survived, and within two months the replaced foot was well enough to begin physiotherapy...