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...team, led by Wilbert K. Carter, teaching fellow in Anthropology, was sent by the Peabody Museum and sponsored by the Office of Naval Research. The group spent two months at Point Barrow the northernmost tip of Alaska on the Arctic Ocean; excavations can be made only during the summer months in this region, since the ground is too hard for careful digging at any other time...
...separate the top of Japan from Soviet-held territory. Across this narrow, foggy stretch of water last week came sounds of detonations strong enough to make Japanese windowpanes rattle. The sounds might be either construction blasting or artillery practice. Off the coast of Hokkaido, Japan's northernmost island, searchlights from Russian submarines or patrol boats have been turned on the homes of the island's farmers from less than a mile offshore. Shipping between Vladivostok and Russian-occupied Sakhalin Island, which dangles like a knife over Hokkaido, is heavy...
...Russia at Yalta): two infantry divisions, one composed largely of interned Japanese soldiers, under Major General Ryuji Sejima, formerly a lieutenant colonel on the staff of Lieut. General Tomoyuki ("Tiger of Malaya") Yamashita. The Russians have also heavily reinforced the intricate underground airstrip and ground force installations on Shumushu, northernmost of the Kurils, which have 300 fighters and bombers. From the Kurils and Sakhalin, a steady stream of Red agents is pouring into Japan...
Other highlights of last week's action: ¶ Wielding flamethrowers and white-phosphorous grenades, gallant doughfeet of the U.S. 2nd Division and attached French overran the last, northernmost peak of Heartbreak Ridge, where a few diehard North Koreans were holding out from a fortified bowl-shaped depression on top. The attackers were aided by tank columns which ranged up the valleys on both sides of the ridge, blasting the Communist positions on top and on the slopes. The peak was so precariously held by the allies that they were dislodged-for twelve hours-by a Red counterattack in less...
...Guajira Peninsula, at the northernmost tip of South America, live 18,000 nomadic Indians who roam a sandy waste (part Colombian territory, part Venezuelan) mounted on horses or old Ford trucks. Anthropologists' accounts of the Guajiro Indians read like tongue-in-cheek parodies of all sober treatises on Quaint Customs of the Aborigines. Item: a thief hurt while trespassing on the property of an intended victim can demand, and get, compensation from the property owner. Item: suicide is a means of vengeance; the person who kills himself believes that he will suffer less than those who goaded him into...