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...INDUSTRIAL CITY will rise along Mississippi River 30 miles upstream from New Orleans. William Zeckendorf's Webb & Knapp is break ing ground for $120 million townsite for 4,000 families, expects to finish first houses by July. Another $200 million will be invested in new plants there by Olin Revere Metals, Dow Chemical Co., Wyandotte Chemicals Corp., Kaiser Aluminum Corp...
...might have been expected that they would feel out of place nearly a mile upstream from their usual habitat, the M.I.T. basin, but, after all, the only thing necessary to make crew tolerable is a six-pack, and it probably passed unnoticed...
Fresh twilight gusts whipped the Charles River Basin into an unrowable sweat, and the freshman race did not get under way on the improvised upstream course until well after 6 p.m. The Yardlings also won, by slightly less than a length...
McKeon reached the edge of Ribbon Creek-some 3,700 ft. from the platoon's barracks-shortly after 8:30 p.m. The tide, with its strong current, was rising. McKeon stepped from the mudbank into the chill (58°) water and turned upstream, hugging the shoreline. Turning, he called out: "Everybody O.K.?" Behind him, the marching column was floundering. Again he shouted: "Everybody O.K.?" The answer came loud: "No!" Men were deep in the mud; Recruit Raymond Delgado yelled that he was up to his chest in the muck. McKeon turned to Recruit John Michael Maloof and ordered...
...Bonn last week, Zorin moved into the Villa Hentzen, onetime home of a 19th century Cologne millionaire, on the west bank of the Rhine opposite Chancellor Adenauer's home. But a mile upstream he had carpenters working feverishly, repairing an old hotel for his staff of 45 Russians, who are also part of the devil's bargain...