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Four-fifths of Malaya-a country about the size of Florida-is tropical forest covering mountains up to 7,000 feet high. In this jungle, inhabited by tigers, elephants, bison, monkeys, gibbons, deer and bear, alive with all manner of insects, including malaria-bearing mosquitoes, bloodsucking leeches, pythons and multicolored birds, where orchids and rhododendron flourish, there is hidden an army of about 5,000 Communist guerrillas...
Since 1928, when he organized the Hellabrunn Zoo and began his experiments in Riickzüchtung (backward breeding), Geneticist Heck has developed his tarpans and a herd of aurochs, the beefy, bison-like ancestors of modern cattle. Neither strain has any domestic value, but both have shown unusual resistance to disease. "The day may come," said Dr. Heck last week, "when our highly bred, high-strung modern breeds will need a shot of their wild ancestors' blood to revitalize them...
Birth of Society. Old Father Jesus was lowered into the cave. The nearest chamber was 300 feet wide, with drawings of bison decorating the walls. Behind it was a maze of passages. He pushed into their darkness. About 1,000 feet inside the mountain he found what he had hoped for: in the middle of a chamber stood a polished stone, carved to resemble a bison. At one side was a thronelike seat for a priest or chief. "This was their main sanctuary," said Father Jesus. "It was their cathedral, the heart of the prehistoric city of Mt. Castillo...
...Lampoon and the Union played unwilling parts in a pre-Hallowe'en prank yesterday morning. At about 7:30 a.m., police found a bison head on the steps of the 'Poon building...
...trophy was taken to headquarters and put in a cell. Later, the Union reported a missing bison head, and University police soon returned the animal to its wall...