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Spring at 26° Below. Though it was technically a spring day in Norman Wells, the temperature was 26° below zero. Winter rules for some eight months a year in the top 2,000,000 sq. mi. of the North American continent, an area which is four-fifths in Canada. But the Canadian North is no longer a land fit only for Indians, Eskimos and a few hardy white men. Lots of women like Mrs. Mackenzie, and lots of children have moved into the North in recent years. The schools in Whitehorse, in the Yukon, now have 364 children...
Before the Arab-Israel war of 1948-49, Jerusalem was a thriving community of nearly a quarter of a million people. Today, divided between Israel and Jordan, after three years of "armistice" without real peace, it is a 1,650-sq. mi. economic wilderness. Blocked gates, streets dead-ended by dragons teeth and rusting barbed wire, roadblocks and ruins divide the two cities, which for economic well-being must be one. On the Arab side, 100,000 people live without money to buy plentiful goods. On the Jewish side, somewhere between 110,000 and 140,000 people live with money...
...Blue Man, another Derby hopeful, the Experimental Handicap No. 2 at Jamaica, in the good time of 1:44 1/16 for 1 mi...
...Pioneers! In Berkeley, Calif., the Elves', Gnomes' & Little Men's Science Fiction Chowder & Marching Society sent a letter to the United Nations legal department, claimed mining rights on 2,250 sq. mi. of the moon...
...remaining British Africa, Britain's Colonial Office took two big conciliatory steps. Most ambitious was a plan to amalgamate the self-governing colony of Southern Rhodesia with the adjoining protectorates of Northern Rhodesia and Nyasaland (see map). Together, the three territories would form a 475,000 sq. mi. Central African Federation, which might one day become Britain's eighth dominion...