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...used like the growth rings of a tree to measure the age of the ice. They explored the cold depths with drills and with shock waves from explosions. They took samples of wood from ancient trees left behind like exhumed corpses by the huge Mendenhall glacier, in the southeastern part of the field. When the ages of these trees have been measured by the carbon 14 method (see below), the glaciologists may know what the glacier was doing thousands of years...
Andong is a town (normal pop. 40,000) on the upper Naktong River in southeastern Korea. Last March, when Colonel Fremont S. ("Tom") Tandy, 50, and his 32nd Engineer Construction Group arrived in Andong, they found the place more than half destroyed. The townspeople were most concerned with the bombed- out ruin of the Bridge of the Rising Buddha. It was Andong's major link with the coast of the Sea of Japan, some 60 road miles away. With the bridge out, Andong and several million inhabitants of North Kyongsang Province were having great trouble getting their food...
...world's greatest rivers is the Mekong, which rises in Tibet and flows* 2,800 miles to the sea at the southeastern corner of Indo-China. The Mekong delta is a 100-mile-long wedge of swampland, rice fields, palm trees and mangroves, called the Cis Bassac. "The Devil does not want for water here," say the French who use the Cis Bassac as a base for operations against Communist guerrillas infesting the thick Foret Inondee to the west and the marshes of the Plaine des Jones to the east. Fifteen times in the last year the French have...
Tito's Yugoslavia is a likely target for Russian-inspired aggression in southeastern Europe...
...Orleans, Kentucky's basketball team over Tulane, 104-68, for a new high-scoring record for the Southeastern Conference (previous record: 98, set by Kentucky...