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Britain's Aden Colony consists of 75 sq. mi. of bleak volcanic rock at the southwestern tip of the Arabian peninsula. Though hot as hell's hinges, Aden is a prosperous city of some 300,000; its port, one of the world's busiest, has virtually the only good harbor on the 3,400-mile sea haul from Suez to India. Aden is also headquarters for the 40,000 troops of Britain's Middle East Command who stand guard over the Persian Gulf. In the setting sun of empire, Britain has been shoved out of bases...
...gradually extended their influence inland by establishing a protectorate over a jumble of sheiks, emirs and sultans ruling such unlikely states as Lahej, Qishn, Upper Aulaqi and Lower Yafa. Submission was all that Britain required: not until recently did the British build schools or roads throughout the 112,000 sq. mi. of the protectorate...
Vellucci and Councillor Daniel J. Hayes exchanged words when Hayes maintained that Cambridge would lose over $250,000 on property in Central Sq. by refusing urban renewal funds from the federal government...
...claims to be the "world's largest commercial office building." (On the grounds that the Pentagon is not commercial and Chicago's Merchandise Mart is an exhibition hall as well as an office building.) It will have 2,400,000 sq. ft. of rentable space-400,000 more than the Empire State Building, though it is only 59 stories high to the Empire State's 102. No building ever had a more accessible location; it can be reached by train, car, subway, taxi, air. Its roof will be a heliport equipped to handle 25-passenger twin-turbine...
...come remarkably close to filling Decker's improbable order with a chemically strengthened glass called Chemcor. In a demonstration session at Manhattan's Plaza Hotel, Corning executives bent, twisted and banged panels of the glass. But the Chemcor, which withstands pressures up to 100,000 lbs. per sq. in. v. 7,000 Ibs. for ordinary glass, did not break...