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Gruesome Ritual. The Fore people, estimated to number 10,000 and only now emerging from the Stone Age, live in a 240-square-mile area 90 miles west of the famed World War II battlefield of Lae (their existence was unknown until 1932). Kuru was first noted in 1951. The disease has not only decimated the Fore, but has become an obsession in their sorcery beliefs. When a kuru victim dies, the kinsfolk pick out a sorcerer suspected of responsibility for the death, do away with him in a gruesome ritual murder called tukavu, in which they pulverize his muscles...
Airline Pilot Russell Bidulph, flying a C-47 from Port Moresby to Lae, looked down on Lamington. Said Bidulph later: "It seemed to cough, and in an instant there was a Bikini-like cloud above it." In a single blast the whole northern side of the peak had blown up. The black cloud, "full of streaks of red lightning," boiled up to 50,000 feet, mushroomed 100 miles wide. Not molten lava, but pumice dust and hot scoria (like clinkers from a furnace) flew out of the crater, making the earth for miles around too hot to live...
...recent practices, Chase has had two lines and four defensemen in uniform in preparation for the Terrier title. John Crocker, Rob Feleney, and Dave Farrell have been performeing together as one trie of forwards, opposed by Wally Sears, Art Lae, and Dave Key, while Ollie Taylor, Bill Glidden, George Gobelein, and George Tilghman have been serving at defcuse...
September: MacArthur's airborne troops landed behind Lae...
...other Slavik children lived on their father's scant coal-mining wages. At 16, Mike lied about his age and escaped into the Army. In the Army, Mike won a hero's medals, but injuries and battle strain were too much for him. He was hurt at Lae, but when he was sent to an Australian hospital, he ran away and was A.W.O.L. for three months. Sent back into the Pacific fighting, he was wounded and suddenly cracked up. He now admits: "I just couldn't take it any more." The Army kept him in rest hospitals...