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...American Geographical Society, JIRP was led by Glaciologist Maynard Malcolm Miller (now 30), who decided that the Juneau Ice Field was an ideal subject for a long-range study of glaciers. It is comparatively accessible, only twelve miles from Juneau. Out of the huge field (700 sq. mi.) flow at least eleven glaciers, ten of which are slowly receding. The eleventh, which particularly intrigued the scientists, is the great Taku glacier, which has advanced more than 3½ miles in the last 50 years...
...search for the Affray took 59 days, covered a 1,000-sq. mi. Channel area where sonic gear marked the position of more than 90 different wrecks. Each time, the camera was lowered away. Sitting comfortably in the captain's cabin, the Navy diver needed only a glance at the TV screen to see that most of the wrecks were old fishing boats or coal barges...
...last December. But that still does not close China's door to the West. The trade has spread across the wide Pearl River mouth to the ancient, gaudy Portuguese colony of Macao (pop. 400,000). Standing on a peninsula and two tiny islands, Macao (total area: 6 sq. mi.) is a place addicted to gold smuggling, with customs officers who look the other way and businessmen who will deal with anybody. It was at Macao, four centuries ago, that white men got their first firm foothold on the mainland of Asia. Last week Macao's air-conditioned opium...
...biggest organized Nationalist force still righting the Communists on the Chinese mainland is a guerrilla army some 30,000 strong, under Lieut. General Li Mi, Nationalist-nominated governor of Yunnan province. In 1949, when Nationalist China collapsed, Li escaped from a Communist jail, retreated into Burma with the remnants of the Nationalists' Eighth and Twenty-Sixth Armies. Since then, his guerrillas have harried Red garrisons along the windswept Yunnan-Burma border...
...upset over U.S. Champion Art Larsen, 6-8, 2-6, 6-4, 6-3, 8-6; in Chicago. ¶ Victor Seixas, the Spring Lake invitation tennis tournament, over Bill Talbert, 6-2, 6-3, 6-3; in Spring Lake, NJ. ¶The U.S. yacht Malabar XIII, the 4,4OO-mi. international race from Havana to San Sebastian, Spain; in 28 days, arriving 48 hours ahead of its nearest rival. ¶Palestinian, the $57,100 Brooklyn Handicap, one of U.S. racing's oldest stakes (first running: 1887), over Sheilas Reward, by a length; in New York. ¶ David Stanley...