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...trial, longest and one of the most controversial in Hawaii's history, lasted 72 months, during which time 83 witnesses gave more than 3,500,000 words of testimony. The jury of Americans of Chinese, Japanese, Hawaiian and Caucasian strains took only 16 hours to arrive at a guilty verdict...
...finish, it was Navy by more than a length; it meant the intercollegiate title and Navy's 20th straight victory, longest undefeated record in rowing history. A surprisingly strong Cornell crew nipped Washington for second place. After the race, Navy Coach Callow, 62, dean of U.S. crew coaches, handed his team an accolade: "The greatest I have ever coached." It was Callow's hail & farewell to an eight-man crew of seniors. Same day, his junior varsity crew, on which Navy must build next year, lost to Washington's j.v. by six lengths...
Sweden is building the world's longest underwater power transmission system. The cable itself, which has already been laid, runs 60 miles from the Swedish mainland to Visby on the Island of Gotland, and is nearly three inches in diameter at its thickest point. Its solid copper conductor, about ⅓ in. thick, will carry direct current at 100,000 volts. The return current flows back through the sea. The electrodes that start it on its water journey are screened to save the fish...
...miles away from his wistaria-covered terrace, U.N. negotiators were bargaining that dream away in the name of peace. What made Rhee doubly angry was that of all of the U.S.'s allies, only South Korea itself (which now holds two-thirds of the battle line and the longest casualty list) had not been consulted on the latest terms...
...four days and nights last week, conservative and moderate deputies hurried to the speaker's stand in the big, drafty chamber of Norway's Storting to cry "Danger!" Their words whistled through the Parliament like the wind; the other side had the votes. This week the longest Storting debate since 1909 ended. Free Norway voted voluntarily, 53 to 39, to take the road towards an economic dictatorship. Behind this move were men who are neither Fascists nor Communists, but deputies of the vigorously pro-democratic Labor Party, which has ruled Norway for 18 years; the same...