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...Phizo (who, lacking a Christian name, took the first and last letters of the alphabet). Phizo, 56, a mission-educated Naga, guided his warriors on ruthless raids in which they slaughtered hundreds of villagers and Indians, then retreated into the jungles and pathless mountain terrain...
...whose open, uncluttered designs, broad windows and lavish use of natural wood have made it the leader in one of the best regional movements in the U.S. This week's prizewinners sum up the partners' goal: to disregard any preconceived formulas, fit each design both to the terrain and to the building's occupants and purpose...
...photography, though, is remarkably good. The rough terrain over which the Thomas' lugged their equipment is attractive, even for a travelogue. The Thomas' also have assiduously gone around to all the local religious festivals. The result is excerpts from religious dances that run ten hours a day for two weeks, as well as shots of Buddhist pilgrims who spend up to thirty days continually prostrating themselves before Lhasa's temples. Many of their subjects, like the Dalai Lama, had never been photographed before, and may never never again, as the Communists have just topped off their invasion with a Peking...
Decisive Moment. "We will walk back into Burma," said Merrill firmly, as his men left India in February 1944. For the next four months, supplied by airdrops and using only mules and their own feet for transport, they slogged 500 miles across the most nightmarish terrain on earth, fought five major engagements and 30 minor ones against the crack Japanese 18th Division, whose commanders were convinced that the regimental-strength Marauders totaled two full divisions...
...bluest chip stocks. Vermeer's Portrait of a Young Girl, recently on loan to Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum, cost $350,000; judged as real estate, it is worth $1,252 per sq. in. (v. $2.10 per sq. in. for the House of Morgan's Wall Street terrain). A Cezanne that could be bought for about $100 when it was first shown in 1895 today fetches around $113,000. Notes FORTUNE: "General Motors has done a little better than Cezanne, but not so well as Renoir; $100 invested in G.M. stock in 1909 would be worth a total...