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Chasing wild geese is so unrewarding it has become a proverb. Ornithologists have long gritted their teeth over the mystery of where the Blue Geese (Chen caerulescens) go in spring. From their winter quarters in the secluded swamp-lands of lower Louisiana the geese fly north so far and fast they literally disappear into the blue. But in 1929 a Canadian naturalist and explorer named Dr. Joseph Dewey Soper at last found a happy ending to his wild-goose chase. He traced the geese into the remote fastness of Baffin Island, deep in the Canadian Northeast, discovered their nesting place...
First there were three years (1932-35) of disastrous warfare over the half-desert, half-swamp of the Chaco. About 100,000 men lost their lives. Then there were three years of patient negotiations at Buenos Aires. Last July Bolivian and Paraguayan representatives signed an agreement submitting to final arbitration by the six Presidents, pledged to act ex aequo et bono-"according to what is right and good." Two weeks later Paraguay's electorate voted ten-to-one to accept any boundary awards made. Bolivia's Constitutional Assembly soon followed suit...
...last week the commission had decided "what is right and good." To Paraguay the map makers awarded the lion's share of the area. Paraguay will get about three-quarters of the disputed Chaco Boreal, an area about the size of Missouri. Generally regarded as impassable swamp in winter and dry-as-dust desert in summer, the Chaco has long been held by Paraguay to be potentially a land of cattle raising, wheat and cotton growing...
...case worker, whimpers atop a chair. In another room the teacher, Tom Pettee, strokes the pretty hair of Carol Gillman, an impetuous divorcee. The others discuss tactics. A gang of local "antis" come in, carry out the committee's two leaders, take them to a dark swamp, thrash them unconscious. Then they turn lights and police on their victims. "I swear!" they say. "They have been beating each other up. . . . Goddamn. They want to get us into trouble." The liberals leave Chew still bloody and uninvestigated...
...Matschat-Farrar & Rinehart ($2.50). Best of the Rivers of America series (previous volumes: Kennebec, Upper Mississippi) Suwannee River more than lives up to its folk-song fame. (Although Stephen Foster never saw the Suwannee, a stone to his memory stands at its source.) Author Matschat describes the primitive, fantastic swamp country of Georgia and Florida, the swamp folk and their legends, like a naturalist with poetic imagination...