Word: tablelanders
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Zealand Alps, then moved to Antarctica, where for nearly a year they tested themselves and their tractors in the worst possible weather. Last Oct. 14 he set out from the Ross Sea base, led a supply train with four tractors up the Skelton Glacier to the ice-covered tableland on the far side of Antarctica's main mountain range. When he had established Depot 700 (700 miles from the coast), his job was done, but only about 500 miles separated him from the U.S.-occupied Pole...
...heart of Spain, the seat of the nation's gone but remembered glory and power. It is still studded with walled towns and fortresses; its name is derived from castillo, which means castle. Old Castile covers the northern part of Spain's bleak, sun-scorched central tableland. New Castile, which was recovered later from the Moors, borders it on the south. In New Castile lies Madrid, like a gem on a rumpled brown cloth...
...hero of his book is a 1 ft. 4 in. lizard named Frut, a happy-go-lucky character with a decent respect for the customs of his native tableland. Frut says his prayers dutifully, bows to the wisdom of the Sages, and even intones the slogan, "All lizards are born equal"-though he knows that the tableland is a caste society where high-born tablelanders like himself treat the lowly creekers (creek-dwellers) as slaves and sluts...
Sage Disbelief. In this best of all possible worlds, Frut is frustrated only by his coy fiancée, who keeps stalling him off despite his stirring performances of the mating dance. Restless, he wanders to the edge of the tableland and has an experience no lizard has had before. A huge, two-legged, two-armed Thing not only picks Frut up and then drops him, but the Thing draws on the ground with a stick, making those mysterious signs-a heart pierced by an arrow-the origin of which even the Sages of the tableland are hard...
...former princely state of Hyderabad lies diamond-like on the plush-green tableland of southern India. In 1948 the Communists tried to grab Hyderabad. Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru sent in 10,000 police, outlawed the Communist Party, and jailed 6,000 Reds. The Communists switched from smash & grab to a confidence-man technique: through a phony People's Democratic Front they began sponsoring candidates for the first All-India general elections in history, an immense and impressive undertaking in which 173 million people (most of them illiterate) are marching to the polls in an election which will take three...