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To save the trapped game and reptiles, the Southern Rhodesian government assigned a total force of three white game wardens and eight native trackers, who are working from dawn to dusk. Wearing bathing trunks and frogman flippers, armed with sheath knives to protect themselves from crocodiles, they grapple in the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CENTRAL AFRICA: Operation Noah | 2/23/1959 | See Source »

Slowly, the flood subsided and lost itself in the waters of Lake Sanabria. On the surface floated the bodies of men, women and children. Dead cows, pigs and chickens were mingled indiscriminately with tree trunks, telegraph poles, rooftops, household goods. A man caught in his home floated to safety on...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPAIN: Thunder in the Ravine | 1/19/1959 | See Source »

Of the Nizam of Hyderabad it can be truly said that he is the man who has everything. In his 72 years, he ruled a state of 18 million people, bossed a brilliantly uniformed army of 22,000 men, had a fortune estimated at $2 billion. In his sprawling King...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: The Nizam's Daughter | 1/19/1959 | See Source »

California's Pat Brown is happily aware of the national prominence into which he was catapulted by his 1,012,000-majority victory over Republican Bill Knowland for Governor. Last week, at La Quinta, a resort about 20 miles southeast of Palm Springs. Brown, dressed in swimming trunks and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DEMOCRATS: The Men Who | 11/24/1958 | See Source »

Missing Parts. To plumb this jungle mystery, the Belgian district officer at Ponthierville assigned a native policeman named Bumba, who journeyed among the native tribes-the dominant Panamoli and their rivals, the Basua-and the scattered river fishermen who are born, live and die in their pirogues, made from tree...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BELGIAN CONGO: Beware of the Crocodiles! | 11/24/1958 | See Source »

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