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...Paracels. Bac declared that the Chinese action was "a sudden challenge" to South Viet Nam's sovereignty over the islands, and pointed out that Saigon has maintained a meteorological station on neighboring Pattie Island for decades. The South Vietnamese government ordered two of its 2,800-ton coastal cutters and four smaller ships to the Paracels to shadow a Chinese flotilla of seven ships including Komar-class gunboats equipped with Russian-made Styx surface-to-surface missiles. The Vietnamese then landed a commando team on Duncan Island and cut down the Chinese flag. According to Peking, shells from Vietnamese...
...coal itself. At a pilot plant near Birmingham, Southern dissolves coal with a recoverable chemical solvent. The coal is filtered to remove impurities and then resolidified. The final product is a clean fuel that has virtually no sulfur or ash and a very high heat value. Cost per ton promises to be competitive...
Paper Plugs. In 1970, inspired by a visit to the now defunct Manhattan rock emporium Fillmore East (where he wore paper earplugs), Fox decided to reach out for the large youth audience by giving Bach a psychedelic transfusion. He added a ton and a half of prisms, lenses, wire, plastic, glass and crystal, installed a light show and his Rodgers Touring Organ-a 4,000-lb. electronic monster with 56 stops and 144 speakers-and opened in the Fillmore with an all-Bach recital. Surrounded by a swirl of colored lights, he swept in on the chariot of the colossal...
What they are seeing is a two-ton, eight-cylinder behemoth built for an age when 50-m.p.h. speed limits, gasless Sundays and talk of rationing would have seemed like blasphemies. The result is that even more motorists are turning to smaller vehicles that can get them through the oil squeeze?at the likely cost of wrenching readjustments in the auto industry, the U.S. economy and the way that citizens move, live and think...
...savage, uncharted Arctic Ocean, there was a compelling connection. It was the bowhead whale. A fat, amiable, elegant creature who wound and warbled (in middle C) through the ice pack on his northward journey each spring, Baleana mysticetus grew up to 75 ft. long, weighed about a ton a foot, and returned fortunes to the Quaker entrepreneurs of New Bedford who sold his blubber and bones to make candles and corsets...