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...then, a silent avalanche of night had engulfed most of the Northeast. Cascading west, south and east from the Niagara Falls region, the electronic eclipse swept over an area only slightly smaller than Great Britain: 80,000 sq. mi., embracing parts of eight U.S. states and most of Canada's Ontario province. In 12 bewildering minutes?in less time than it would take an intercontinental missile to reach the U.S. from Russia?30 million people were plunged into blackness and bewilderment. And, in a society that has peered at the moon's hidden face and unlocked the secrets of matter...
...Kentucky side of the Ohio River. In a heavy rain squall, the pilot momentarily lost sight of the ground as he turned to line up with the runway. A wingtip snagged a nearby slope, slamming the plane down with such force that wreckage was strewn over a 400-sq. yd. area. Though local residents pulled four trapped passengers to safety, 58 others died in the flames...
...both houses of the state legislature since the 1912 election, when they swept in on Woodrow Wilson's swallowtails. This year more than ever the issues were made to order for a lively, Lindsay-style Republican. The most densely populated state in the Union (860.3 inhabitants per sq. mi.), New Jersey has almost as many problems as people. State-supported colleges are so crowded that 50% of the qualified applicants have to be turned away each yar. Other public institutions, from hospitals to orphanages, are archaic and inadequate. Highways are clogged, while the state road program lags for lack...
...real center of Communist resistance was among the fertile paddies around inactive but smoking Mount Merapi in teeming central Java, where economic dissatisfaction is helped by one of the world's densest populations. Somewhere in a lOO-sq.-mi. triangle centering on Mount Merapi, Indonesia's Red Boss D. N. Aidit was said to be hiding out with ten or eleven cohorts in the P.K.I.'s stoutest stronghold: the party claims some 1,000,000 members, 30% of its total, among the poverty stricken peasants in the region surrounding the sprawling city of Solo. In the month...
...glow of dawn was just brightening the sky over Santo Domingo when a force of 17 U.S. tanks and 2,000 OAS troops in full battle dress rolled into the city's downtown rebel zone. Within an hour, the OAS soldiers set up sandbagged emplacements throughout the l-sq.-mi. stronghold that leftist rebel partisans still call "sacred revolutionary soil." Shouted curses and a few harmless sniper shots greeted the troops. Most of the city's 500,000 frightened citizens could give thanks that the OAS was acting in the nick of time to prevent the Dominican Republic...