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Geologists have warned the city of Long Beach, Calif, (pop. 303,000) that if it does not do something fast, most of its harbor district, centering on the powerhouse of the Southern California Edison Co., will sink far below sea level...
...Sahara. From there the oil would travel 338 miles by train to the Mediterranean at Philippeville, Algeria. By 1960 Lemaire hopes to increase production to 70 million bbl. from reserves that are estimated at more than 7 billion bbl. To do it, the Cabinet also okayed his plan to sink 350 more wells. Another major problem is transporting so much oil across some 500 miles of desert to the sea, too big a job for two narrow pipelines and the railway. To get the oil out, Lemaire will lay down an null 530-mile pipeline from the wells directly...
...that improbable hour, silences the clanging, and plunges cloudily back into the sack whence he emerged, leaving his victimized comrade to sleep angelically through his 9 o'clock lecture. Invariably, moreover, he is at the toothpaste, in the shower, on the Seat, or at the sink at the precise moment you would like to use said utility. His timing is infallible...
George Harrington, a tiny 5-7 sparkplug guard, was the Crimson's outstanding player. He led the team with 26 points, and singlehandedly broke up a second-half B.C. full court press by a skillful dribbling performance. He would either draw his defensive man into a foul, and then sink both free throws, or dribble past and pass for a basket...
...boots walking up and down an examination room. It is annoying, also, to have two proctors stand behind you and converse in tones so exquisitely modulated that you catch just half of their conversation. But, great as these annoyances are, there is one other with which in comparision they sink into insignificance. It has frequently happened that as soon as a number of men had finished their papers, the books were seized by some proctor, who, after reading until he came to a passage that seemed to him ridiculous, would call a fellow-proctor to enjoy the laugh with...