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Beyond the Mexican capital, the Inter-American Highway is paved for 165 miles to Tehuacan, after which it gradually degenerates from gravel to dirt to cow tracks. At Chiapas, 185 miles from Guatemala, it halts completely in a maze of mountains. From the Guatemala border to Guatemala City there are 310 miles of road, of which 192 are impassable in wet weather. From Guatemala City there is a fine gravel road for some 200 miles to San Salvador. Beyond lie 87 miles of dry-weather road, which trickles into nothing but a track with occasional good patches as it cuts...
Denmark's towering Christian X kings it over two separate realms. The second is a subarctic island covered with glaciers and boiling volcanoes, vast lava beds, gravel deserts and eternal clouds of sand and pumice dust. This is Iceland, whose 115,000 proud citizens are chiefly crowded in the lowlying southwestern corner of their grim island. Iceland won home rule in 1874, independent sovereignty in 1918. To show Icelanders that he takes his job as King of Iceland dead seriously, King Christian learned some Icelandic. Last week, for the first time in six years, King Christian paid Iceland...
...impeccable morning clothes who looked exactly like the Chancellor of the Exchequer. This Irish yarn seemed all the more unlikely because several men were said to have been standing nearby when the child fell in, while the top-hatted rescuer had sprinted from the gravel walking path, vaulted over a low railing, waded rapidly into the duck pond and grasped the floundering child...
Comfortable though the Admiral's cottage is, it has not yet been wired for electricity. At 9:30 one evening last week he sat in his small drawing room reading the papers to his wife. There came a crunching of feet in the gravel driveway. An elderly housemaid announced that some young men wished to speak to the Admiral...
There was a shot. The lamp crashed to the floor. Mrs. Somerville rushed screaming to the dining room for another lamp, but it blew out before she could reach the hall. In the dark she heard the pounding of running feet on the gravel again. The Admiral was still breathing when she reached him, but he died before a doctor could be summoned. By his body lay a card: RECRUITER FOR THE BRITISH. THIS IS A WARNING! By the door was a crumpled British recruiting poster and another card. It read...