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Filmed in the arid bush country of Northern Austria, "The Overlanders" achieves its distinction through a scrupulous regard for simplicity and historical accuracy. The story of a thousand cattle being driven across 1200 miles of rugged terrain needs expert treatment to maintain a high level of interest without sporadic injections...
Found: in the rugged hills of the Indo-Burmese border near Imphal: the remains of Major General Orde Charles Wingate (the "Lawrence of Burma"), organizer of Wingate's Raiders, who died there in a 1944 plane crash.
Lack of practice and rugged opposition proved too much for the Crimson lacrosse team which dropped two out of three contests last week in the heart of the Maryland-Delaware lacrosse belt.
In 1926, a handsome, excessively rugged individualist named George Plummer Mc-Near Jr. bought the bankrupt Toledo, Peoria & Western Railroad for $130,000 down (price: $1,300,000). The road had one great asset-transcontinental freight trains used it to get around Chicago.
But one night last week, McNear's rugged individualism boomeranged. As he strolled near his home in Peoria, somebody murdered him with a single shotgun blast. At week's end there were few clues, but $41,615 in rewards.