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...Philippines are a chain of 7,100 islands in the Southwestern Pacific, most of them less than a square mile in size, running roughly north and south. They cover 115,600 square miles, about the area of Italy. The principal islands: Luzon (40,420 square miles) and Mindanao (36,537 square miles). Biggest city: Manila...
...affair was sponsored by he Department of Southwestern United States Archaeology...
...Kolomoki Mounds State Park in southwestern Georgia gets its name from several Indian mounds, relics of a forgotten people who lived 600 years ago. One of them, recently excavated by Dr. William H. Sears of the University of Georgia, is called "Mound D" by archeologists. What the Indians called it may never be known, but the tale of its building must have scared many generations of prehistoric children. Mound D was the scene of the goriest funeral ever held in the state of Georgia...
...girls, Martha Arellano, 7, and Lily Mendoza, 6, who have tuberculosis of the spine. Dr. Rogers used sections of bone from Olivia Holguin's legs to strengthen the little girls' vertebrae. Walking well on her new legs (she used neither crutches nor cane), Olivia Holguin went to Southwestern General Hospital to pay a visit to the children she had helped to mend. Last week, both youngsters went home...
Last month Texas Democrat Ed Gossett left his seat in the House and went back home to become counsel for the Southwestern Bell Telephone Co. at $25,000 a year, because he found it impossible to support his wife and five children on a Congressman's $12,500 salary and $2,500 untaxed expense account (TIME, Aug. 13). Last week seven Democrats and one Republican thought enough of a Congressman's pay and position to fight it out for the seat in a special election. The winner: husky District Judge Frank Ikard, 37, a Wichita Falls Democrat...