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...last summer General Sir Archibald Percival Wavell called three of his officers into the Cairo headquarters of the Imperial Army of the Nile. He was worried about rumored Italian plans to slice in through the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan from southeastern Libya. But to get firsthand accounts of Italian troop and supply dispositions meant a hazardous trek of over 1,000 miles across rocky, dune-ribbed desert. The three men before him jumped at the job. For ten years they had made a sport of just such traveling, spending their vacations exploring the Sahara. Within six weeks they had trained...
...Paraguay rivers. The Uruguay cuts south from Brazil for 1,000 miles, separating the northern tongue of Argentina from Uruguay and Brazil. To the west is the 2,200-mile Paraná. Starting in the highlands of southern Brazil, it curls around the low hills in Paraguay's southeastern corner, where the Guarani Indians first named it "Mother of the Sea," then heads south through Argentina to the Plata. The Paraguay rises in the sluggish swamps of the Mato Grosso, flows between heavy stands of quebracho trees through the heart of Paraguay, joins the Paraná where it enters...
...went to Yugoslavia to sign a treaty of "constant and perpetual friendship." He returned desperately ill-from something he had eaten, no doubt. Uremic poisoning followed. Sinking rapidly last week, he uttered his valedictory: "Hungary will take an active share in building the new European order-particularly in remolding southeastern Europe...
...Herbarium's field work, Professor Fernald assembled 7,282 sheets of critically important specimens in southeastern Virginia, a historic region of American botanical study. This exploration yielded more than 100 specimens never before known in the region, and 20 new to science...
Tennessee, Southeastern Conference champion, undefeated not only this season but last season and the season before, was another top-ranking candidate to represent the "East" in the Rose Bowl. But they too let Stanford down. After walloping Vanderbilt, 20-to-0, last week for their 32nd victory in a row, Bob Neyland's Volunteers-who went to the Rose Bowl last year, the Orange Bowl the year before-decided that they wanted to see gay New Orleans, voted to accept New Orleans' bid to the Sugar Bowl (with a $75,000 guarantee for their university...