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Rakosi is the real No. 1 man in Hungary, even though he is only Deputy Vice Premier. The front man until last week was Premier Lajos Dinnyes (rhymes with in mesh). Rakosi replaced him with Puppet Istvan Dobi (rhymes with Gobi). Both are members of what is left of the Smallholders Party; both dirked their party by working for the Communists...
Last week in Moscow, Paleontologist I. A. Efremov announced that he had found "millions" of dinosaur skeletons in the Gobi Desert of Mongolia. It might well prove to be the biggest dinosaur graveyard in the world. The skeletons lie from 49 to 131 feet deep, apparently in the bed of an ancient river...
Disturbing Echoes. In the early 1930s Roerich was at the pinnacle of worldly fame as painter and poet, Asiatic explorer, archeologist and mystic philosopher. In 1934, Admirer Henry Wallace, then Secretary of Agriculture, sent Roerich and his son George, an Orientalist, to the Gobi Desert, to collect drought-resisting grasses for the U.S. dust bowl. As the serene man who was used to being called "Master" moved through Asia, disturbing echoes reached the U.S. In Manchukuo the Japanese thought he was a Russian agent. The Russians thought he was a Japanese spy. The Chinese thought...
Item: that running backs are about as plentiful on the home side of Soldiers Field as ospreys in the Gobi Desert. Harvard gained a net four (4) yards rushing Saturday, and except for Hal Moffie it was frequently hard to tell which way the backs were running...
...Years. Because Tu was an only son, the old historian did not want him to be a soldier. But Tu ran away, entered Whampoa Military Academy, and graduated with the first class, in 1924. A vigorous sportsman in peacetime-he likes to hunt wild asses from horseback in the Gobi-Tu is also an accomplished paratrooper. He got his training from OSS experts training Commando troops in Kunming...