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...Bureau Chief Peter Range was hardly back from covering the desperate situation in Cambodia when the South Vietnamese government decided to abandon a large portion of the country in a strategic withdrawal. After a hectic scramble for transportation, Range managed to cadge a seat on a flight to Danang, terminus for streams of refugees from the northern provinces. His eyewitness report accompanies this week's cover story...
Since then, some 275,000 people have returned to the canal's northern terminus at Port Said and 280,000 to Ismailia. Suez, which was 80% destroyed during the October war, will not be ready for full repatriation of its 264,000 residents for another year. Even so, the population has swelled from 8,000 to more than 100,000 since June...
...needs for 80 to 100 years. It has a definite point of origin--November 12, the Tuesday when 120,000 coal-mining members of the United Mine Workers didn't go to work because their old contract had expired without a duly-negotiated successor. And it has a discernible terminus--the day, ten days or so after the UMW's 38-member bargaining council approves a new contract, and a majority of members vote "yes" on the provisions President Arnold B. Miller and the Bituminous Coal Operators Association hammer out--provisions that will govern their working lives for the next...
...Dwight D. Eisenhower Center is in Abilene, a town of 7000 in the plains of central Kansas. A 19th century railroad terminus for huge numbers of cattle being driven from the open range in Texas, Abilene was a classic frontier town. Wild Bill Hickok was once marshall there...
...greatest losses to Cambridge that the disappearance of Harvard would entail would be the demise of Harvard Square. As a subway terminus and as the meeting place of all of the city's major roads, a Harvard-less Square would quite likely continue to be congested. But the area's economic vitality and cultural uniqueness is totally dependent on its proximity to the University...