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...other Nubians in Egypt who last week were being evacuated from their ancestral homeland on the Nile banks. The exodus was necessary because the Aswan High Dam, being built by Egypt with Russian help, next spring will back up the Nile, creating a huge 1,800-sq.-mi. reservoir that eventually will give Egypt vast new irrigated acres and electric power. But it will also flood the gaily painted houses of the Nubians, their cemeteries, mosques and groves of date palm...
Private Mountain. The land where Hope will rule is so small that its 2,748 sq. mi. and 162,000 people could fit comfortably into a U.S. national park like Yellowstone. The new Maharajah personally owns Kanchenjunga which, at 28,146 ft., is the third tallest moun tain in the world and probably the world's most majestic when its snowy peaks are lit by the sunrise and borne aloft on lacy clouds. Sikkim contains every variety of climate and plant, from the subtropical through the temperate to the arctic. Snow leopards prowl the Himalayan slopes, pandas frolic...
...year) and a paucity of places to hunt. Wary farmers post NO TRESPASSING signs; creeping asphalt and urban sprawl gobble up more land each year. What open land remains is often overcrowded. Last week in northern Michigan's Ogemaw County, the deer hunter population was 100 per sq. mi. In the East, it is worth a man's life to venture into the woods. "I don't know which is safer," says one hunter. "Wearing a Day-Glo coat or hanging a pair of antlers on my head." So what does today's hunter...
...illegal to sell an ice-cream cone. A law to that effect was passed by Congress in 1921 and signed by Woodrow Wilson on his last full day in office as President of the U.S. Designed to protect the public against spoilage, the law makes it a mi demeanor to sell ice cream in Washington except in easily iced standard units - half pints, pints, quarts...
...that Trainer Carl Hanford saw Kelso, the walnut gelding seemed hardly worth a glance: he had won only one race and $3,380. Last week-four years, 28 victories and $1,411,817 later-Kelso paraded to the post at Aqueduct, the 1-4 favorite to win the H-mi. Woodward Stakes. At six, when most thoroughbreds are munching blue grass in retirement, the great-grandson of Man o' War was still running for his dinner, looking for his seventh stakes victory...