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BRITISH Columbia, land of promise, is celebrating a birthday this year. It is a vigorous, bustling 100. In observance of the occasion, TIME sent Calgary Bureau Chief Ed Ogle and Toronto Photographer George Hunter ranging across the province by airplane, helicopter, train, bus, car, steamship, fishing boat and afoot to get a color picture spread and a colorful story. For their special report, including six pages in color, see THE HEMISPHERE, CANADA: British Columbia at 100. Appropriately, this week marks an anniversary for TIME: the 15th year of our Canadian edition, which goes to 200,000 Canadian families. Observing this...
Cocky and supremely self-confident, Jack Westrope rode to win-and let the stewards look out for the horse or rider who got in his way. Set down for a variety of race-track offenses-both afoot and horseback-Jack Westrope talked back to track stewards, fought back in the courts. And sooner or later he always got back on some good mounts. He was never again the country's leading rider, but he won a total of 2,467 races, and he rode his mounts to winnings...
Planes & Camels. For the French side of the story, a CBS crew headed by Paris Correspondent David Schoenbrun got pictures of the French forces-in planes, weapons carriers, on camels and afoot-swooping down on a gunrunning caravan in the desert, raiding a burned-out farm settlement for hiding rebels (they found one suspect), seizing a cache of bombs in a raid within Algiers' famed casbah. Schoenbrun underscored the heavy threat of terrorism in daily civilian life, the heavy commitment of France's money and prestige, the huge stake of the 1,000,000 French and other European...
...swimming the River Boyne. As part of his design to scare the British, Hitler ordered "pack assembles'' dropped at random over the countryside. They included radios, maps and instructions to imaginary secret agents. Unmanned parachutes were dropped to spread the notion that a secret paratroop invasion was afoot. Some fell in fields of standing grain, where the absence of tracks leading away from the parachutes encouraged the British to believe that no parachutists had been attached to them...
...mighty earthquake that laid waste more than 100 Iranian villages in an area covering 50,000 square miles. Communications were cut; the area's network of irrigation canals became blocked; sliding earth made roads impassable. In two ruined villages alone, rescue workers making their way perilously afoot and on horseback found more than 400 bodies...