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Anthropological dogma holds that modern man, ancestor of all people living today, appeared rather suddenly in Europe 35,000 years ago, spread south ward into Africa and eastward into Asia, and finally, no more than 12,000 years ago, crossed the Bering land bridge to America. Now an anthropological heretic...
Occupying 15% of the earth's land surface, the Soviet Union stretches from a cluster of virtual colonies in Eastern Europe to the Bering Strait off the top of Alaska, across two continents and eleven time zones; more than 3,000 miles? roughly the distance from New York to San...
Although he does not speak Russian, Watson has some firsthand knowledge of Soviet life. During World War II, he spent six months in Russia as part of the Lend-Lease airlift program, piloting Army Air Force transports that carried goods across the Bering Sea from Alaska. With other business and...
Many American experts fear that Soviet production is already peaking. Last year the CIA issued a detailed report predicting that the nation's most productive wells, notably the huge Samotlor field and those along the Urals (see map), would soon be drying up. Thus, concluded the CIA, the Soviets...
SAILOR ON HORSEBACK (A BIOGRAPHY) AND 28 SELECTED JACK LONDON STORIES Doubleday; 777 pages; $12.95 Jack London was the stuff of dust-jacket writers' dreams. His life read better than other novelists' plots. Before he was out of his teens he had, among other things, shipped on a...