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...famous poem A Visit from St. Nicholas*), eight tiny reindeer were enough to herald the coming of St. Nick's toy-laden sleigh. In Argentina last week, it took 20 reindeer to herald the coming of Perón's Five-Year Plan to Tierra del Fuego. The government had imported them to provide food, clothing and transportation to the 3,513 inhabitants of the wintry archipelago at the tip of South America. On arrival from Sweden, the antlered immigrants were welcomed by Minister of Marine Rear Admiral Fidel Anadon. Said Buenos Aires' semi-official daily...
...Chonos. 5. Tierra del Fuego...
...Simple Onas. To find primitive virtues, the ethnologist must go all the way to the Onas, who lived in cold Tierra del Fuego. Their only clothing was a skin cape. They ate meat, seafood and fungi, washed themselves with liver. They did not drink or smoke, had determinedly rigid standards of chastity. They attached no prestige to wealth. They were free of restraints of government, seldom gathering in large groups except to eat a dead whale. They counted up to five only...
First step in the Rickenbacker plan: a photographic and radar survey of the 5,000,000-square-mile Antarctic continent. From Tierra del Fuego, Tasmania and South Africa, long-range bombers would make three wide sweeps across the polar area, flying distances up to 6,500 miles. Weather, rescue and emergency air stations would be manned by "paratroopers" at Little America and other places. Next step: sites for base camps would be selected, and sleds, dogs and scientists would be flown in for further exploration of the more promising bomb targets. Suggested base for the bomb-carrying planes: New Zealand...
...knows most about bark canoes this week was happily polishing off his masterpiece: a book comparing the primitive canoes of America, Australasia and Tierra del Fuego. He is grey, lean E. (for Edwin) Tappan Adney, the most distinguished resident of Upper Woodstock...