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...last June, when most other Olympic hopefuls were lashed into rigid training programs, Norwegian cross-country skier Vegard ("the Viking") Ulvang was hunkered down somewhere in central Greenland, pondering the vexing little problem of survival. He and his best friend, Frenchman Pierre Gay- % Peret, had set out seven days before to ski 355 miles across the world's largest island. Though the speediest previous crossing by their chosen route had been 25 days, they had brought enough food for just 20. "We wanted to go fast," explains Ulvang. But their pace during the first week had been crabbed...
...believed, like Doc Peret, that somewhere inside each man is a biological center for the exercise of courage, a piece of tissue that might be touched and sparked and made to respond, a chemical maybe or a lone chromosome that when made to fire would produce chain reactions of valor that even the biles could not drown. A filament, a fuse, that if ignited would release the full energy of what might be. There was a Silver star twinkling somewhere inside...
Last Refuge. Unfortunately, the Amazon Basin is the last refuge for tribes like the Waimiri and Atroari. "The Indians resent the speed and aggressiveness with which the road is being built," says João Americo Peret, a Brazilian Indian expert. "But since they can't confront the road-building machines, they take it out on the FUNAI people...
...lived in the United States for two years of World War II, moving to Paris after the war to participate in the developing surrealist movement with such figures as Andre Breton and Benjamin Peret...
...merger at four or five times its actual value. Came the Wall Street crash and World Depression. Banque Adam, Oustric et Cie and other Oustric companies failed for a total of $56,000,000. Among the many roars of protest from bilked investors it was loudly charged that Raoul Peret, Minister of Justice, had been receiving secret sums from the Oustric bank. Prime Minister Tardieu defended his minister in the Chamber, was booted out of power by the Senate (TIME, Dec. 15). Last week the Oustric case grew hotter & hotter. Clement Moret, governor of the Bank of France, testified that...