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Some Western scientists reckoned that the Russian explosion took place in Eastern Siberia or in the Gobi desert. British scientists guessed that its intensity was in the neighborhood of 15 megatons (the most recent U.S. blast at Bikini is usually estimated at between ten and 20 megatons). Excited newspaper headlines (and some discreet Communist prodding) led fainthearts and opposition parties in most of the affected nations to demand an immediate stop to all atomic tests everywhere. Yet even in France, where the wails were loudest, the most intense concentration of radioactivity was ar below the top level that human beings...
Died. Charles P. Berkey, 88, topflight U.S. geologist, Columbia University's Newberry professor emeritus of geology since 1941, expert consultant in the building of Hoover and Grand Coulee Dams and of Manhattan bridges and tunnels, chief geologist in the 1925 Gobi expedition of the American Museum of Natural History; in Palisade...
Destination Gobi (20th Century-Fox) is a run-of-the-range western with a Far East setting. The picture is based on a real incident: during World War II, the U.S. Navy maintained teams of weather observers in the Gobi Desert to assemble meteorological data for the Pacific theater of war. As a gesture of good will, one of these weather units had 90 saddles flown in from the U.S. and parachuted on to the desert for Mongolian plainsmen...
Died. Sven Anders Hedin, 87, Swedish author-explorer (The Silk Road, Riddles of the Gobi Desert) who did more than anyone since Marco Polo to unveil the geographical mysteries of Central Asia; of cerebral inflammation; in Stockholm. He retraced the ancient silk routes from Cathay to Tyre and, in a series of expeditions covering half a century (1885-1935), put names and colors into blank areas of Asian atlases. At home on Asia's plains, he often got lost in the jungle of closer-to-home politics. A fervent admirer of Hitler ("one of the greatest men in world...
...kite and are snatched up by two of Wu's scouts. In dutiful obedience to their captors, the boys help them capture a whole trainload of military equipment. Delighted, General Wu sends the boys home by the only safe route - a 3,000-mile detour through the Gobi Desert. On their tremendous journey they have adventures enough to impress Tom Sawyer: a Living Buddha trusts them with a secret message, a great bandit prince bows down to do them reverence, a buried treasure opens to their shovels in a ruined city. The story never rips & snorts; it moves with...