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Courtly Advantage. The battle is not really equal-but that fits perfectly into the oriental scheme of things. Only 34 in. sq., the dainty pakpao is less than half as big as the bulky (85 in. sq.) chula, which takes as many as 50 men to control. But the pakpaos line up along the north side of Phramane Grounds, and the steady southwest wind gives a courtly advantage to the weaker sex. The female kites bank on speed and guile: sometimes two pakpaos will pounce on a single chula, like nimble fighter planes attacking a lumbering bomber. Even...
Whitlock added that although the $2.6 million figure was "ridiculous" for the 62,000 sq. ft. plot, Harvard would be willing to pay a "premium price." He noted that Cambridge City Manager John J. Curry '19 had once mentioned $1 million as such a price...
...suicidal, six-year War of the Triple Alliance against Argentina, Brazil and Uruguay; out of a population of 525,000, only 220,000 survived, and only 28,000 of these were men. Again in the Chaco War of the 1930s, Paraguay took on Bolivia and won 20,000 sq. mi. of wilderness borderland-at a cost of one Paraguayan life for each square mile. Thus the prize won in 1954 by Stroessner, a veteran of the Chaco War, was a sleepy backwater, 600 miles by river from the sea, cobblestone-quaint but short on manpower and desperately poor. Only...
NASA is currently considering three locations in the city, O'Neill said. They are Technology Sq., the city dump, and 25 acres of swampland near the Concord Turnpike...
Died. Jigme P. Dorji, 45, Premier since 1955 of Bhutan, mote-size (18,000 sq. mi.) Indian buffer state in the Himalayas, who with his brother-in-law, King Jigme Dorji Wangchuk, brought Bhutan boldly into the 20th century by abolishing slavery and polyandry, joining the Colombo Plan, building hospitals and the first road to the outside world; by an unknown assassin's bullet, as he sat in a resthouse at the Indian border post of Phunchholing...