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WASHINGTON, May 14--Secretary of State Dulles, said today he favors a limited arms inspection agreement with Russia covering sparsely populated arctic area such as Siberia, Alaska and Northern Canada...
Dulles said it would be easier to win Russian acceptance of such an arctic disarmament plan than one covering a heavily populated European zone where there are political complications...
Died. Grant Carveth Wells, 70, handsome, Ripleyesque explorer who alternated expeditions to Tanganyika, Manchuria and the arctic with lectures and radio broadcasts about flying frogs, African snowstorms and fish that winked from the treetops, once got $3,500 a week from a film company for Raffles, his garrulous myna bird, wrote widely about his rub-Dernecking (A Jungleman and His Animals); of a heart attack; in Los Angeles...
...resident of Cambridge, Raisz has traveled in every state in the United States, every province in Canada, every country in Europe, and in Turkey, Arabia, Mexico, Cuba, Alaska, and the Canadian Arctic. For his actual map-making, he uses aerial photographs, large collections of which are available both in this country and abroad. He particularly likes those taken with a trimetrogon camera--really three cameras in one. They are mounted so that one camera takes a picture straight downward, while the two others take pictures obliquely left and right from horizon to horizon with a small overlap...
...most U.S. physicians, K. was not "mad" in the opinion of his fellows. He became one of the most respected members of his community-a leader in the practice of medicine. For K. is a shaman among the Yakut, a primitive tribe of fishermen and reindeer hunters in the arctic wastes of eastern Siberia. Moral drawn by State of Mind: one man's madness in one society is another's greatness in a different culture...