Word: deserting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...book such as Rommel, the Desert Fox, reviewed in your Jan. 22 issue, leads one to ponder the imponderables of life...
...first rescue teams to fly through the clouds of volcanic ash to an airstrip near Lamington last week reported at least 50 square miles of formerly jungle-clad hills now a grey-brown desert of pumice dust caking into stone. Said one rescuer: "It was like being on another planet...The haze of steam and smoke issuing from Lamington made the whole thing a nightmare." Said Australian Government Official Claude Champion: "Native bodies were everywhere. Dead natives were hanging in the stripped branches of every tree, and many were caught in the forks of the trees. Apparently they died there...
Radioactive dating, done in the U.S., proved that "No. 49" (his mummy was the 49th which the Peruvians unwrapped) died about 600 B.C., when Rome was younger than Cincinnati is now. He was buried with other leaders of his people on the desert Paracas peninsula on Peru's southern coast. For perhaps 1,000 years his descendants lived near by, spinning their delicate, brilliant textiles, making beautiful pottery and ornaments of gold...
Then something happened; perhaps a river that watered their irrigated fields dried up or changed its course. At any rate, the "Paracas Culture" was swept away, and vanished from human memory. The mummies buried in the desert are the only traces of it that have been found...
Rommel, the Desert Fox, by Desmond Young. A brisk, well-written biography by a British brigadier who obviously admires his subject (TIME...