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...shrunken modern world still has pockets of mystery. One of the most mysterious is the Dash-ti-Margo (Desert of Death) in southwestern Afghanistan, where the summer heat rises to 125° F., and the sand-laden wind reaches 90 m.p.h. Last week Anthropologist Walter A. Fairservis of New York City's American Museum of Natural History told how in the midst of Dash-ti-Margo he and two associates had come upon a dead city forgotten by the modern world...
...Church for Hickory. One of the bishop's most successful rural projects in his own diocese has been street preaching. In 36 counties of southwestern Missouri, some 70 of his priests are touring in pairs from town to town in any kind of car they can get, so long as it can be equipped with a loudspeaker. At each stopping place the travelers seek out the local priest and with him go to work on a street corner preaching, answering questions, passing out pamphlets. This project has been especially effective in reclaiming backsliders. As a result of one such...
Late in 1943, Masao Mimatsu, postmaster and amateur volcanologist of Sobetsu, a small town in southwestern Hokkaido, was working on routine papers. Once in a while he looked out the window at his pet volcano, intermittently active Mount Usu, two miles away. On Dec. 31 he heard a mighty rumbling and the ground began to tremble. Shouting "Ji-shin!" (earthquake), he rushed outdoors and looked again at Mount Usu. The tall black volcano showed no signs of life...
...room Hawkings home (called "The Limit," because it is the last house on Shanghai's southwestern boundary) at once became a front-line position. Nationalist soldiers pulled down fences all around, dug trenches through neighboring gardens, put neighboring houses to the torch. When one group of soldiers started to chop down Mrs. Hawkings' trees, she told them: "We've lived in this house for 27 years and brought up five daughters here, and we can't have this sort of thing going on." The soldiers, overwhelmed by her bearing and her perfect Chinese, obediently put away...
Whenever she heard that a big corporation (e.g., Southwestern Bell Telephone or Monsanto Chemical) was due for a paint job, she went to the head man, but she made friends with the maintenance men, too. On a tip, she hustled to the McDonnell Aircraft plant and told President James McDonnell: "Jim, if you're going to paint, I think we can do the job better than anyone else." She did, concocting special shades christened "McDonnell maroon" and "banshee blue" (after the company's fighter plane...