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...Northward were the Himalayan pastures, where the gentle Sherpa tribesmen live. The trail crossed giant mountains, crowding the icy torrent of the Dudh Kosi and soaring on the other side to 20,000 ft. Sometimes by day there were rain and sleet; sometimes there were hornets that can drive a man mad. And so, on March 25, they came to Namche Bazar, the chief of the Sherpa towns...
...week, 14 radio stations in Japan and Korea beamed the offer northward in Korean, Mandarin, Cantonese and Russian...
Ninety miles inland from the Persian Gulf, the oasis of Buraimi has slumbered for centuries. Its 8,000 inhabitants subsist on dates, camel meat and milk, and live in eight, mud-walled villages scorched by the gusts of the shamal. No one knows for certain to whom Buraimi belongs. Northward lies Trucial Oman, "protected" by the British; westward lies Saudi Arabia; all around is uncharted waste, so desolate that even the Arabs call it Rub al Khali, the Empty Quarter...
With the warmer spring weather, and with the northward migration of millions of birds, two of TIME'S writers are beginning to hear more questions about their favorite spare-time activity-prowling the woods and fields looking at birds, counting them, imitating their calls and studying their habits. For them it is an all-weather, year-round pastime which calls for old clothes, field glasses and an abundant knowledge of bird lore. They know, for instance, that a robin sings, not because he is happy, but because he has just staked out a claim to a clump of trees...
Primarily a storytelling artist, he has no doubt at all that "the human subject is the most important thing." Until very recently, the stories Lawrence told were grim and tough. Depression-schooled, he first won fame in 1941 with a series of 60 small panels describing the northward migration of Negro workers that began during World War I. Washington's Phillips Memorial Gallery and Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art both bid for the entire series, and regretfully divided it. The generally bored and blase "art world" warmed at once to the bullet-headed youth...