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...does not recognize the 1914 McMahon line, which fixed India's Tibetan border in the North-East Frontier Agency, claims that the actual frontier runs 100 miles south of the present line on the south slope of the Himalayas. Two years ago, Red China occupied 12,000 sq. mi. of Indian territory in Kashmir, has laid claim to an additional 39,000 sq. mi. along India's northern frontier. Recently the Chinese Communists established new border outposts at Nyagzu and Dambuguru in Ladakh province. The newest aggression was too much for Nehru's opposition...
...southwest. Hopefully trying to scare the Portuguese colonial authorities into going home, Nehru had massed Indian army regulars on the Goa border. "Goa is a constant irritant," said Nehru. "It must come to India." The situation in Goa, he declared, was "intolerable." Actually Goa (1,300 sq. mi.) was only, as Nehru once said, a pimple on the face of India, embarrassing because it was still a colonial territory on the Indian subcontinent. But the pimple had become a boil. "We have always been exceedingly reluctant to solve problems by use of force,'' said Nehru. "But there...
...Army and Air Force bases of New Mexico believe that the Tularosa Basin is ideal for a major spaceport. In its northern sector is a vast, bare alkali flat with 100 sq. mi. of almost perfectly level surface, made chiefly of gypsum (natural plaster of Paris), which is firm enough to support the world's heaviest aircraft. Most of the basin's few inhabitants are already connected with military space activities and are eager to see the region regain the importance that Canaveral took away from it. Even the small cities beyond the basin...
Despite the swarming hunters, there are so many deer (in some areas 30 per sq. mi.) that there are roughly only three hunters for every legal buck (one with antlers at least 3 in. long). All are looking for the "big horse," a stag weighing over 200 Ibs. with a ten-point rack...
...present state of the world's evolution, Antarctica is the only continent that is overwhelmingly in the grip of an ice age. In its vast expanse (5,300,000 sq. mi.) lies the key to much of the world's weather. It holds 90% of all the ice on the earth's surface (far more than formerly thought), affects the surrounding oceans for hundreds or thousands of miles in all directions. For such reasons, Antarctica is a land of mystery and paradox-and a priceless laboratory for the world's scientists. Last week, as the southern...