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...began a new $190 million Texas-to-New York line that was bigger (30 inches) and longer (1,840 miles) than the Inches, the event went almost unnoticed. California was building its own "Super-Inch," stretching 506 miles eastward across the desert to meet another 1.100-mile pipeline stretching westward from Texas and New Mexico. To handle all the expanded supply, the gas utilities themselves would have to spend another $2.5 billion, another venture whose vastness would have made it a laughingstock only a few years...
...houses and shanties at the tip of South America, in desolate Tierra del Fuego. Ushuaia's closest contact with the outside world lay 400 miles away in the Falkland Islands, where Author Bridges' father had begun his career as an English missionary. The senior Bridges had sailed westward with his bride, and in 1871 arrived at his mission at Ushuaia harbor, in Beagle Channel. There he set about the business of building a few houses, civilizing the Indians (whom Naturalist Charles Darwin called, says Bridges, "if not the missing link, then the next thing to it") and raising...
...that struggle, cooperation between the U.S. and Britain is "the linchpin of the structure," said Monty. "None of us can stand alone and none are doing so today ... In Western Europe, the eyes and thoughts of everyone are ever turning westward . . . They look to the English-speaking nations and wonder if they can count on their help: definitely. We must not let them have any doubts...
Through the programs of all 12 Niemans, certain courses run as pronounced favorites. Eleven are taking Professor Frederick Merk's "History of the Westward Movement," while other popular courses include Professor John K. Fairbank's History of "Far Eastern Civilization," Professor Arthur M. Schlesinger's "Cultural History of the United States," and visiting Professor Robert Wolf's "Russia and the West...
...Blockhouse, Coach Norm Shepard will be working through 35 varsity basketball candidates, hoping to shape a squad that can play his brand of fast-break ball. Right now it's still "fundamentals" for the team, which opens its season in early December. The schedule will take the team westward at Christmas and bring to Boston such new rivals as Navy...