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Siberia. The Russian name originally meant sleeping land, and so it has been since the beginning of history. For millenniums, men came and went in this vast expanse and scarcely left a mark. Ancient hunters in animal skins tracked the mammoth through the taiga-the deep silent forests of pines and birches. Nomadic tribesmen pushed up from the south, grazing their cattle and roaming on. Then the thunder of horses reverberated across the steppes, bearing the predatory banners of Genghis Khan. Chinese prospectors ranged northward to comb the wilderness for ginseng roots, the source of miraculous cures. The land echoed...
Just three miles off Helvick Head on the southeast Irish coast, the navy's three minesweepers and a fishery protection vessel trapped a coastal freighter laden with five tons of arms. The catch was not mammoth as military matériel goes, but it included the kinds of weapons that the Provos have used to murderous effect: 250 submachine guns, 2,000 rounds of ammunition, 200 antitank and antipersonnel mines, 500 lbs. of gelignite, 300 grenades, TNT, explosive fuses and detonators...
Pride. Life offstage was no less strenuous. Melchior consumed mammoth meals, washed down by heroic quantities of aquavit and Danish beer. He traveled widely and was an enthusiastic big-game hunter. (He liked to wear the skin of a deer he had bagged as his costume in Siegfried.) He took great joy in entertaining friends with his wife "Kleinchen" during festive holidays like Christmas, when he unabashedly decked himself out as a jolly Santa Claus...
...they will return--after 7000 miles and five slaloms against the best racers in the country in the USSA Western Spring series. As Steele and Carter race against the likes of Bobby Cochran and several just-off-the-World Cup-circuit Europeans at Snoqualmie, Washington, Mt. Hood and Mammoth Mountain, they will likely remember the Harvard Athletic Department fondly, for the men at 60 Boylston St. found enough cash out of special funds to pay for the skiers' air fare...
...years ago, they set out to make another mammoth chronicle, this time of the entire De Gaulle era. "We were exasperated by the veil of veneration thrown over him," says De Sédouy. The two soon ran into a Gaullist resistance as stubborn and iron-willed as that of the General himself. De Gaulle's son Philippe refused to see them, telling friends that everything must be done to stop a project that could "only denigrate" his father. The state television network, ORTF, which holds a monopoly on World War II newsreels as well as postwar TV newsclips...