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The Joiners. All through the week, tough, eager Longyearbyen search crews skied and tramped the rugged ice mountains, looking for the telltale orange parachute, while overhead a dozen U.S. Air Force planes and the helicopters droned steadily in the 22-hour Arctic sun.
After Army, the Yardlings will face Princeton, Andover, Yale, and rugged Dartmouth. Barring misfortune, they could go all the way.
The Clouds Lift. With the forged letters as a pretext, Red China embarked on one of the most massive man hunts ever. Detachments of the estimated 300,000 Red troops in Tibet began to drive painfully into the rugged land south of the great Tsangpo River, which still remained in...
The Red military, however, will really run the show, Premier Chou made clear. The revolt, complained Chou, had been started by a Tibetan army "clique," backed by "imperialists" raising such reactionary slogans as "Independence for Tibet." After their initial success at Lhasa, Red armies may find it harder to occupy...
Black topsoil, rolling 350 miles west and south of Buenos Aires, has nourished Argentina's agricultural past; but for its heavy-industrial future, Argentina is looking toward continent's-end Patagonia. Outwardly, Patagonia seems little more than 300,000 sq. mi. of wasteland lashed by 60-m.p.h. antarctic...