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Orinoco. When a Piarros Indian (the tribe, head hunters, live near the upper waters of the Orinoco River) becomes sick, his fellows scoop him a trench and there they stretch him with food and water. If he recovers, he may amble after the others. They will not have gone far, they are lazy. If he dies . . . earth takes back its matter very quickly along the Orinoco. Some 1,500 years ago, the ancestors of the Piarros potted their dead in urns. That was, and to some extent is, a Mongolian practice. Most anthropologists declare that a Mongolian culture is discernible...
...hours (TIME, Aug. 6). Azara's major trouble was running into calm seas. In one four-day period she moved only 20 miles. But her owners, George J. and Francis E. Baker of Detroit, gallant sportsmen, refused to unseal her engines and use them, even though the fresh water supply was running...
...event of the Olympics is a race of 26 miles, 385 yards. El Ouafi is a spindle-legged, narrow-chested Algerian. He ran despatches for the French Government during the World War, now works in an automobile factory in Paris. He is 29, a vegetarian, drinks only milk and water. When the Marathon was three-fourths finished, he was just an obscure also-ran, jugging along in tenth place, eighth place. Suddenly word reached the stadium that a dark little man was passing the leaders as if they were standing still. He crossed the finish line smiling and almost fresh...
...impossible to put down safely in the dark on a burning seaplane which still had a ton overload. As I drew out of the dive I saw the glow reflected on the wave crests. I managed to put the machine down on one crest, ran down a hill of water, up the next hill, and just prevented the machine from shooting into the air off the next crest...
...transport Minnehaha when it was torpedoed off the Irish coast. The ship sank so rapidly that it literally shot out from under its Captain's feet. He calmly swam about, assisted twelve wallowing survivors into lifeboats. Then, through long grey hours he bobbed about in icy water, blowing air from his huge lungs into a leaky life preserver, until finally he heard the drawl of a familiar voice, "Oh I say, Claret, is that you?" The voice was in command of a British destroyer which rescued the almost expiring Claret...