Word: southernmost
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...international scene, but is not without a certain fascination of its own. The plot goes something like this; Sabah is a 29,000-sq.-mi. chunk of Borneo, rich in timber, rubber, tobacco and untapped mineral wealth. It is located in the Sulu Sea only 20 miles from the southernmost Philippine Islands. Once a haunt of Moro pirates, Sabah was signed over in perpetuity to the British in 1878 by its ruler, the Sultan of Sulu, in return for an annual honorarium of 5,000 Straits dollars (now worth $1,700). In 1963, when colonialism's day was done...
Elsewhere, the Communists pose a constant threat. The allied military presence has never been strong, for example, in the southernmost IV Corps, which comprises the rice-rich Delta; now it is weaker than ever. The ARVN and Popular Forces fled from the countryside at the onset of Tet, and have been slow to return. The U.S. has only two brigades of the Ninth Infantry in the Delta. Their energies have been fully taxed by the patrols required to keep open Route Four, over which food supplies flow to Saigon...
Migration West. Fans loved the new game-those who had a chance to see it. At its best, in the N.H.L., it was still played in only six cities, the southernmost of which was New York, the westernmost Chicago. And just try to find a ticket. Toronto's Maple Leaf Gardens (capacity: 15,591) has not had a single unsold seat for an N.H.L. game since 1946. In Montreal, scalpers demand-and get-as much as $30 for a pair of $5 tickets to Canadiens' home games. Despite six cellar finishes in seven years, the Boston Bruins consistently...
Harvard, predictably, massacred Penn's hockey team 15-1 Saturday night, but you couldn't expect a squad from the Ivy League's southernmost outpost to be any good at hockey. After all, does Miami have a curling team...
With its wet surroundings, Key West, Fla., the southernmost city in the continental U.S., is ideal for conch shell collecting and deep-sea fishing, but it has been hard up for fresh water. The city long had to rely on a 130-mi. Navy-owned pipeline to the mainland, a source vulnerable to hurricanes, drought and, recently, the Navy's rising water appetite at its own local bases...