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...marinas range from spartan to sybaritic. A sampling: ∙ BLAKELY ISLAND, a 7-sq.-mi. member of the San Juan Archipelago off the northwest corner of the state of Washington, was bought ten years ago by Pioneer Sports Flyer Floyd Johnson, who canvassed the west coast from Mexico to Canada to find an island he could turn into a flyer's private paradise. Johnson has left most of Blakely wild, has put a 2,400-ft. lighted landing strip (planted in grass) in one corner and surrounded it with lots for no more than 200 families, plus a comfortable...
...aging twelve-man Presidium; of cancer; in Moscow. A native Finn, Kuusinen fled to Moscow in 1921 when a Russian-model Bolshevik revolution was crushed in his own country, became secretary of the Comintern, then returned home to rule over fellow Finns as puppet president of the 68,900-sq.-mi. Karelo-Finnish Republic, carved out of the eastern portion of Finland by Russia during World War II. His shrewd bet on Khrushchev in the post-Stalin power struggles won him a return ticket to Moscow in 1956, a seat at the very top a year later, and finally that...
...world begins its course 4,150 miles from the sea. Its longest leg, called the White Nile, pours out of Lake Victoria through Uganda's Owen Falls Dam, drops swiftly to the Sudan, where it snarls itself in the tangled vegetation of the Sudd-50,000 sq. mi. of swamp, amidst whose 14-ft.-papyrus thickets and convoluted blue ambatch flowers the river loses half its water in evaporation and drainage. The Blue Nile dashes headlong down the rain-wreathed mountains from Lake Tana, smoking through unnavigable gorges and scouring tons of rich earth from the Ethiopian highlands. Where...
...hydraulic system that works the giant control surfaces uses up 2,000 h.p., more than the output of both engines of a wartime B-25 bomber. If built conventionally, it would have been far too heavy; for the XB-70A, fluid pressure was raised to 4,000 Ibs. per sq. in. in unusually thin tubing. Such changes save weight, but they also increase the hazards of a system that has already proved a notorious source of aircraft trouble...
...project in Latin America. The company was picked by the State Department's Agency for International Development's Agency for International Development to plan and engineer a $27 million program of school and medical construction in northeast Brazil. The project will fan out over 1,500,000 sq. mil, and will include the construction of 6,500 elementary schools. 332 health centers, 22 teacher-training centers, 21 normal schools and 47 audio-visual centers plus the renovation of about 4,000 existing calssrooms. Daly will send a staff of 50 to supervise the project, but Brazilian contractors will...