Word: logs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...student at Uganda's Makerere College set out to make his own symbol. Gregory Maloba, 19, had some tribal lore in the back of his head, little knowledge of any other art tradition. Death, he thought, should be "not unkind but inscrutable." Out of a three-foot mahogany log, he carved a horned shape of power (see cut). Maloba's Death did no grinning, whispering, or shoulder-tapping; the Shape stood pityingly behind its victim, and crushed...
...Tiki was doing all right. Last week, the men on the big log raft (modeled after an ancient Peruvian balsa) sighted the first land they had seen since leaving Callao, Peru, three months and 4,100 miles ago (TIME, April 21). It was the island of Puka Puka, easternmost atoll of the Tuamotu archipelago. To the six Scandinavian scientists on the Kon-Tiki, the smudge of land was proof of their theory that ancient, pre-Inca Indians might have traveled across the Pacific from Peru to Polynesia on big, homemade rafts, carried by the south equatorial current. Sailing...
Food seems to be the determinant for London office vacationists, several of whom, like Bureau Chief John Osborne, have already fled to the lusher larders of Switzerland or Ireland. Others will follow, including homesick Correspondent Eric Gibbs, who writes: "A log cabin, a Minnesota lake fringed with evergreens, blue sky, a hot sun, lots of sizzling bacon and fresh (not dried) eggs-those are the main elements of the holiday I'm planning. Reason: they're in short supply here. Transportation should be easy. I leave London in the afternoon, am due to reach Minnesota next evening. Then...
...view from the train's windows. On the Russian side of the border, I saw ruined, largely unrestored towns that had been part of Finland. Viipuri was ghostlike and still in the morning sun. The people were in rags. They were still living in dugouts and log houses. Few of the fields were plowed. Everything seemed static...
This week Weyerhaeuser proudly announced that it has developed products to use tree bark, thus utilize the 12% of a Douglas fir log that was formerly thrown away or burned as sawmill boiler fuel...