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Actor James Garner and Comedian Pat Harrington Jr. introduce the four-day Carling World Golf Championship and interview some of the foreign competitors, including Nationalist China's Chen Ching-Po, New Zealand's Bob Charles, Brazil's Mario Gonzales...
...reach that stage. Your aim is to consolidate what you have built up, and there is always more consolidating to do." For Ansett, 55, there is always more expanding to do too. He is now intent on breaking out of Australia and getting routes to Hong Kong and New Zealand. Both are international runs that the government has so far reserved jealously for its own Qantas Airlines...
Housed in a compact building near Boulogne, France, a row of 10-ft.-high steel cylinders feeds high-voltage electricity into cables that cross under the English Channel to link the power networks of two nations. The same sort of tubes will soon be at work in New Zealand and Japan, and the U.S. Department of the Interior hopes to hook them to a pair of 750,000-volt lines more than 800 miles long that will carry surplus hydroelectric power from the Pacific Northwest to consumers in California and Arizona...
More of Everything. He should have gone to Pinas Bay. An isolated jungle inlet, 150 miles southeast of Panama City, Pinas (or Pineapple) Bay is the world's hottest marlin ground, better than Peru, better than New Zealand, Hawaii or the Bahamas. There, swarming around a bait-packed barrier reef seven miles offshore, are more different kinds of billfish, and more of each, than anybody has ever seen before: big Pacific sailfish in such profusion that fishermen consider them a nuisance, literally thousands of blue marlin, silver marlin, striped marlin and the lordly blacks...
Frozen Beards. At McMurdo, men had worked all day under the ghostly lunar light extending the snowy runway to 10,000 ft. On the strip, oil drums were set alight to make a landing flare path, and New Zealand's nearby Scott Base turned on all its lights as a beacon in case of trouble. "The place is lit up like a Christmas tree," exclaimed the pilot over his radio. Down to McMurdo between jagged peaks came the Hercules, as a small group of Americans on the ice breathed tensely through frozen beards. The landing was perfect, and, while...