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Sinkiang is cut and laced by towering mountains. One of the oldest traditional ways out is the flat, salty waste of the Gobi Desert. This way the great caravan of Kazaks started. There were 20,000 people, with huge herds of sheep, camels and squat Mongolian ponies...
...shake Japanese nerves. After lunch, with only a half-hour's swim in the pool (his favorite single relaxation), the President drove back to Newnan, his face grave. He went without the usual gay hand-waving to the crowds of back-country farmers, out to see the caravan whoosh past...
...which, minus porters and bedding, will be used as coaches. The Pennsylvania alone will handle more than 300 special trains, will detrain some 50,000 men at Manhattan, has appealed to their mothers and sweethearts not to stand around in the already crowded station. Longest haul: a three-train caravan from California's Fort Ord via Southern Pacific to Chicago. Lightest bottleneck: the two-track Richmond, Fredericksburg & Potomac, which is the only link between three Southern roads at Richmond and the Northern roads at Washington. Shuttling more than 150 loaded specials to the already crowded Washington gateway in four...
...western desert, the R.A.F. attacked a caravan of vehicles, destroying considerable supplies of gasoline. Too late, the attackers learned they fought their own troops. . . . Near Bagdad, in Iraq, the R.A.F. actually attacked British ground forces. Such episodes contributed to the flat statement by one high-ranking British officer in the Middle East cam paign: 'I will not go into action again unless I am able to give direct orders to the air squadrons allocated to my support...
...defense stamp (10? and up) was good for admission to a "Dance for Defense" in Detroit last week, at which Barry Wood sang Any Bonds Today? The dance not only plugged defense but was a feature of the RCA-Victor Dance Caravan, touring the Midwest in a ten-car special train. In four days, 23,000 youngsters jitterbugged to music by Tommy Dorsey and Shep Fields, gawked at the $100,000 props (palm trees, waterfall, blue silk ceiling) taken from the disastrous Dance Carnival opened last summer by Monte Proser in Manhattan's Madison Square Garden (TIME, June...