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Expedition! (ABC), with Explorer-Author-TV Producer John D. (Danger Is My Business) Craig as host, follows the 1959-60 trail of Tracker John Gunther as the show wanders the earth looking for Abominable Snowmen, African bushmen and socially disinclined jungle Indians in Brazil. The Frozen Continent, this week's opening program, extends TV's stay-at-home commuter service to Antarctica, nicely balances biological and geophysical information with its documentation of winter life near the South Pole...
...beat embraces 2,948,366 sq. mi., some of them so untamed that when a story takes him to Australia's Northern Territory, he sets foot on barren plains where aborigines still hunt wallabies. He has reported on the diet of platypuses, the music of the bushmen, and kuru, the strange back-country ailment in which the afflicted literally laugh themselves to death. Last week, just returned from an assignment on the subtropical island of New Guinea. Correspondent Hubbard had one story for TIME and another about TIME...
...activities were tours of the newer dormitories, visits to selected classes, and discussions led by members of the faculty. Planned to show visitors "that the only proved asset of a university is its faculty," according to President Jordan, the sessions included subjects ranging from a movie on the African bushmen to "The Hero in the Modern Novel...
...Bushmen are one of the few social groups in the world today showing little sign of contact with higher civilization. It is feared, however, that the distinctiveness of their culture will soon be lost, as they come into increasing contact with surrounding tribes of Bantus...
Numbering about 6,000, the Bushmen are short in stature with extremely curly "pepper-corn" hair. Their skin is dark but with unique reddish hues. Their language and religion are also distinctive...