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...tung made the entire march on foot, except for a few weeks when he was ailing. After a year, the marchers arrived in bleak Shensi. Of the 80,000 who had started out, only 20,000 reached their promised, unpromising land. Mao Tse-tung moved into a convenient cave in the cave-city of Yenan, just below the Great Wall, and proceeded to build his beaten Communist remnants into a new Soviet state...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Man of Feeling | 2/7/1949 | See Source »

...from town to town, usually in the rugged, desolate mountain country around Hsingsien. By last fall, he was in Shichiachuang, the Reds' administrative center on the western edge of the rich North China plain. Then, following the Red army's advance, he returned home to his Yenan cave. His popularity among his followers was greater than ever. Everywhere Mao went, his words were noted down by breathless disciples. Some observers feel that Mao is getting too popular-and too powerful-for his own good...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Man of Feeling | 2/7/1949 | See Source »

...probably dumb) relatives turned up last week. Dr. Robert Broom, 83, paleontologist of the Transvaal Museum, cabled to the University of California that he had found the gigantic teeth and massive lower jaw of an apeman far bigger than a modern gorilla. Dug out of a limestone cave at Swartkrans, near Johannesburg, the teeth and jaw are definitely human, rather than apelike. Their original owner (who will now be called "Swartkrans Man") must have looked something like the huge primates, Meganthropus and Gigantopithecus, whose teeth were found in Java and China some years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Bite & Hop | 12/13/1948 | See Source »

Harvard's "largest non-political organizations," the Outing Club, has plans for a broad winter program which includes weekend ski trips, skating parties, walking trips, mountain climbing, and cave exploring...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HOC Schedule Lists Skiing, Skating, Hiking for Winter | 12/7/1948 | See Source »

...Spelunking", or cave exploring to the indoor type, has turned out to be the one of the HOC's most popular activities, said president Bill Siddall last night. Expeditions will leave every Sunday for the Berkshires to accommodate those who derive pleasure from crawling on their belies through tunnels hollowed out by springs running through lime stone ledges...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HOC Schedule Lists Skiing, Skating, Hiking for Winter | 12/7/1948 | See Source »

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