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...drills from Sweden, and imported Swedish rock engineers to supervise their operation. Even so. in temperatures of 135°, metal surfaces blistered the human hand. Summer work was done mostly at night under the glare of brilliant floodlights. The rock hauling has been delayed by frequent breakdowns of Russian dump trucks, which cost Egypt $41,000 each...
...pour off the Cambridge St. exit of the Massachusetts Turnpike extension into Cambridge's already badly clogged streets, the CRIMSON learned yesterday. Traffic engineers have estimated that when the Turnpike extension is completed next year, the exit (located just down-river from the Business School) will dump approximately 16,500 cars a day from Boston and 9,000 from the western part of the State...
...Walker Sullivan of the New York Times, the idea of he forthcoming explosion, we read, came from two physicists at the University of Minnesota back in 1958. They proposed that a hydrogen bomb be exploded inside the Van Allen radiation. "This would contort the earth's magnetic field and dump particles it had. The particles would plunge into the atmosphere, producing spectacular auroral displays." "It might be amusing," they wrote," to end the international Geophysical year by destroying some of the radiation field first discovered during the I.G.Y...
That afternoon, inspecting a highway construction project five miles north of Beirut, Johnson was in top form. He announced that he had started out on a road gang himself after finishing high school, asked a dump-truck crew: "How much does this truck hold?" Five yards, they answered. Said Lyndon: "My first job was on a truck that held only one yard. We loaded it with shovels, then dumped it." Turning to Lebanon's Public Works Minister Pierre Gemayel, Johnson added: "You're going to realize great benefits from work like this. In my country...
Prisoner of the Vatican." He died, embittered by his political failures, in 1878. When his coffin was carried to a final resting place at San Lorenzo fuori le Mura three years later, anticlerical Romans tossed mud at the mourners, unsuccessfully tried to seize the remains and dump them in the Tiber...