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Filmed in the arid bush country of Northern Austria, "The Overlanders" achieves its distinction through a scrupulous regard for simplicity and historical accuracy. The story of a thousand cattle being driven across 1200 miles of rugged terrain needs expert treatment to maintain a high level of interest without sporadic injections of high-octane melodrama. "The Overlanders" reaches the correct balance between fact and fiction, resulting in a refreshing absence of gun play or fiendish attacks by woolly-headed natives. By careful pruning, the producers have portrayed the grim struggle to save a herd from the Japanese with all its harsh...
Even today, Chinese of all degree may soothe their souls with the old masters' rhymes. A refugee still barred from his northern home by the civil war might wonder with Wang...
Bush Taxi. Ontario-born John McNiven now lives in Yellowknife, on the desolate northern shore of Great Slave Lake, center of the new gold rush (TIME, May 13). As the only municipality in the sprawling empire, Yellowknife presented the council last week with unaccustomed problems. For instance: though 420 miles from the nearest railhead and 450 from a highway, Yellowknife has a flourishing taxicab business, carrying passengers between town, airport and mines. The local administration wanted the right to regulate the cab business. The council said yes. It also gave the boomtown authorities power to deliver water (there...
...addition to its laboratories and observatories here in Cambridge, the department maintains three observing stations at strategic positions in the northern and southern hemispheres; at Oak Ridge, 25 miles north-east of Cambridge, where Astronomy concentrees work once a week; at Climax, 11,500 feet high in the Colorado Rockies; and at Bloemfontaine, South Africa...
...program, headed by the state's agricultural and health authorities, will take on all the trappings of a civic crusade. Local chambers of commerce, boards of health, Rotary and Kiwanis Clubs will march on the flies in close ranks. In northern Iowa a mechanized column of 40 former G.I.s is training with pressure spray outfits. They plan to hit Mason City on June 9, DDT-ing the whole town fly-less in two hours by the clock...