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...beds of Amazon River tributaries in remotest Amapá territory, the glitter of gold has set off periodic rushes since 1893. Early in June a ragged, unshaven prospector stomped into a river village with word of the latest strike. To pay for medicine, food and tools, he had a poke of alluvial nuggets, which he had found in a branch of the Jari River...
...these faults are hardly worth carping about. The Wages of Fear is a first novel by Georges Arnaud, 34, a wartime refugee from France who made his way to Central America, worked as truck driver and gold prospector, and soaked himself in the life of the oil fields. His story marks Arnaud as one of those literary naturals who find their bent the first try. Brutal, violent and good storytelling, The Wages of Fear makes a lot of hard-boiled writers look like children writing for their maiden aunts...
Canada's vast area (next in size to the Soviet Union and China) throbs with industrial action. In bleak Ungava, where only the rashest prospector ever ventured a decade ago, a new railway is thrusting through the wilderness to tap an iron-ore lode larger than the state of Connecticut, and perhaps as rich as the famed Mesabi Range in northern Minnesota. Above an Indian village named Kitimat, in the stony heights of British Columbia, engineers are damming half a dozen mountain lakes, creating a waterfall 15 times as high as Niagara, to power the world's biggest...
Playing a true-grey Confederate captain on his way to join Quantrell (John Ireland), Ladd shoots a gold assayer to even an old score, then takes captive a prospector (Arthur Kennedy) and his fiancee (Lizabeth Scott), who want to turn him over to the sheriff. He hands the prisoners to Quantrell. Gradually, as he falls for Yankee Sympathizer Scott, Ladd joins the prisoners in a desperate fight against the guerrillas and their Indian allies. Finale: like Heroes Gable and Cooper (see above) Ladd evens things up in a man-to-man tussle-with pistols and knives, on horseback, afoot...
...Chubb Crater and the lake that now fills it will never be a handy tourist attraction like Arizona's meteorite crater near Canyon Diablo. It is close to Hudson Strait, on a granite plain so desolate that even arctic animals prefer to live somewhere else. Discovered by Prospector Fred W. Chubb (who noticed its telltale circular shape in an air photo), it was briefly explored by Geologist Meen in the summer of 1950 (TIME, Aug. 14, 1950) with inconclusive results. He decided that it had not been caused by a volcanic explosion or glacial action; but there...