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Tigers & Timber. The northern mountains, covered with snow from September to March, are rugged and heavily forested with spruce, larch, birch, juniper, maple and walnut. In the forests lurk leopards wild boars, wolves and tigers. Still a menace to the northern peasants, tigers were so much a part of Korean life 30 years ago as to justify the Chinese sneer: "The Korean hunts the tiger one half of the year and the tiger hunts the Korean the other half...
...perfect landing at New York's International Airport last week flew a silvery DC-6 with strange markings painted on its sides: L.A.I. Out stepped the suave, spruce U.S. Ambassador to Italy, James C. Dunn, and black-mustached Prince Marcantonio Pacelli, a nephew of the Pope. They were members of a party celebrating a momentous event in Italian commercial aviation, the first flight to the U.S. by an Italian airline...
...incline. Trying to unbuckle his harness, he slipped. His foot caught in the leg strap and he had hung head down, helpless. Next morning two of the flyers found him still hanging there. They cut him free, wrapped him in his parachute, and put him in a bed of spruce boughs; but they themselves were too weak to get him down the cliff...
...Spruce from a new overhaul, the mighty U.S.S. Missouri-the only active battleship in the U.S. Navy-steamed out of Norfolk last week headed for Caribbean maneuvers. For lean, strong-jawed Captain W. D. Brown, it was the first trip since he took command last December. Just past Old Point Comfort, the Mighty Mo swung to the north of the familiar channel to run a new acoustic range. The Mighty Mo never swung back. With the sickening sensation that only a sailor can know, Captain Brown felt his ship touch bottom. Slowly, majestically, the 57,600 tons of the Mighty...
...insulated wire. On their panels lights flash mysteriously: red lights and white lights dancing like motes in the sunlight as the numbers flow. Harvard's newest machine, Mark III, is probably the handsomest. It was built for the Navy's Bureau of Ordnance, and it looks as spruce and shipshape as a naval officer. At work, it roars louder than an admiral...