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...trackless, roadless waste, at a point halfway between the blue Mediterranean and the bleak Matmata Mountains, M. Daladier and his official escort reviewed a formidable parade of fighting men and equipment: white-robed Spahis, galloping on their small Arab horses, black Senegalese bands playing trumpets and fifes, camel corps with both officers and men barefoot, guiding their awkward mounts by pressing the big toe against the camel's neck. Curious nomadic Bedouins watched the strange proceedings...
High in the Andes dwells the vicuña, an undersized member of the camel family. Fast as the antelope, agile as the chamois, the goatish little vicuña, which lives only at altitudes over 12,000 ft., has to be killed to be captured-otherwise he spits in your eye and runs away...
Some 4,000 miles from Arequipa, Peru, where the fine under-hairs of the vicuña's fleece bring around $14 a pound, dwells Sylvan I. Stroock. His S. Stroock & Co., Inc. of New York is the leading U. S. manufacturer of rare expensive fabrics-camel's hair, llama, cashmere and vicuña, most costly of all these...
...miles from Sian through Sinkiang (once part of China proper but now almost completely under Soviet dominance) to the Russian centres of Alma Ata and Sergiopol, on Russia's new Turk-Sib railroad. Over this Silk Road, then called the Imperial Highway, some 2,000 years ago camel caravans, loaded with silk, jade and lacquer, plodded their way to Samarkand, where the goods were shipped to Byzantium, Tyre, Rome. Seven centuries ago Marco Polo pushed his way down the Silk Road from the West to reach the court of Mongol Emperor Kublai Khan, and gazed upon a civilization which...
Editor Rose, who diplomatically refers to her readers as "growing-ups," promises them good clean fun from "Sunrise to Sandman." Selected titles from table of contents for the November issue are: "Gloomy the Camel," a story; "Boo Boo, the Woods Boy," a picture story; "Helping Around the House," subtitled...