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...Largest and most well-known organization of its kind in the country, the Mountaineering Club has been increasingly active since the end of the war, and future plans call for expeditions and training that will make previous jaunts pale by comparison, according to William L. Putnam '45, secretary of the Club's advisory council...
With the requirement of passports and visas newly abolished, the Haitian Government put down the largest welcome in the history of this Caribbean land, hoping to attract a lucrative flow of tourists from many foreign lands, primarily from conveniently nearby, pleasantly wealthy United States of America. The prospects were beautiful. Since the appearance in TIME [Nov. 4] of "Paradise 1946," a story describing the Utopian life Haiti affords its foreign visitors, there had come an unprecedented flood of letters to the Chamber of Commerce in Port-au-Prince and to the U.S. Embassy, from people wishing to come to Haiti...
Greenland's 800,000 square miles make it the world's largest island and stationary aircraft carrier. It would be as valuable as Alaska during the next few years, before bombers with a 10,000-mile range are in general use. It would be invaluable, in either conventional or push-button war, as an advance radar outpost. It would be a forward position for future rocket-launching sites. In peace or war it is the weather factory for northwest Europe, whose storms must be recorded as near the source as possible...
...city planners told me that he believed in the future Los Angeles would be the largest city in the country; New York second, Chicago third and Houston fourth. He may be right, if New York and Chicago, in particular, continue to be dead from the neck...
...royal tomb, second largest and the oldest ever found, had been looted by grave robbers before the pyramids were started, but it still contained plenty of relics for modern archeologists. Crude hieroglyphics identified it as the tomb of Queen Mereneith, wife of Zer, second (or third) Pharaoh of Egypt's First Dynasty. Date: about...