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Craft in a Cave. Shipped north, Greening bolted from the train during an air attack. Winter caught him on the Yugoslav border and he holed up in a cave with two New Zealanders. To pass the long days they whittled statuettes and model airplanes, invited kids from the nearby villages to come look. One night a German patrol looked in too and recaptured them...
...speleological depth record passed last week from Italy to France. Speleologist (cave explorer) Pierre Chevalier, a chemical engineer above ground, led an expedition into a hole in the limestone body of the Dent de Crolles, a 6,765-ft. mountain in the western Alps. Eleven hours later the party emerged from the other side of the mountain and announced that they had worked their way 658 meters (2,158 ft.) below their starting point. The previous record, near Verona, Italy: 637 meters...
...took M. Chevalier and his fellow cave crawlers twelve years to explore the Dent de Crolles, which is riddled with caves like a geological Swiss cheese. Back in the Tertiary period (10 million years ago), says M. Chevalier, the mountain was much taller. Snow water from the youthful peak worked its way into the rock, gnawing wells and tunnels and vast, echoing halls in the soluble limestone. Then, as the peak itself eroded away, the channels gradually lost their water supply and became a "fossil drainage system." Another elaborate system, still rushing with water, now drains through the diminished peak...
...come back to Yenan? Yang snorts. "I never left," he says. "I am too old for retreat." He simply took refuge in a cave overlooking the city. The day after the Government troops entered-after the street-sniping ended-Yang came down. Aiya! His shop was intact, but Government soldiers had taken his bedding and wares of toothpaste and Yenan brand cigarets. For two days he had been impressed as a water carrier. Now he was free again with a Government relief stock of cigarets and flour for ta bing (cakes...
...Confiscate Anything." A short walk beyond, Housewife Yu Chi-ping is sweeping debris from the dark cliffside cave in which her family lives. The table, two chairs, and a chest are gone, Yu laments. The water jar and crockery are smashed. There comes to mind the Communist high command's directive before the Communists withdrew: "To keep our troops fit... confiscate anything. . . . For firewood we shall use doors, windows, furniture. . . . Cooking vessels must be carried away. What can't be destroyed must be buried. . . . We must sacrifice for our sacred land of democracy and our president...