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...population and geography of the Old World, circled by ocean liners and near airplane routes, its 300,000 sandy square miles have challenged and beaten back explorers since the Middle Ages. No European had seen its mysterious, lethal interior until this winter hardy Englishman Bertram Thomas trekked 900 mi. across its arid wastes, from Dhofar on the Arabian Sea to Dohah on the Persian Gulf, where he emerged last week and told his story...
...open. Dr. Paul Martin of Switzerland", bone specialist, U. S. 1,000-yd. champion, has an ideal stride for indoor track but he has only recently recovered from an attack of bronchitis. He withdrew from the 1,000-yd. race and placed only third in the two-mi, steeplechase. To some of the foreign athletes, however, boards were new. Seraphin Martin of France was second in the 600-yd., which Phil Edwards, late of New York University, won for the fourth year in succession. Paul Keller of France did not even place in the 1,000-yd. From this point...
...races left new marks in the world record book as well as in the pine track: the 70-yd high hurdles, and the 1⅞-mi. relay. Lanky, pale-faced Percy Beard of Alabama equalled the world record in both his heats for the hurdles and then led dark-haired Lee Sentman, last year's champion, and Gene Record of Harvard, intercollegiate outdoor champion, in the final. His time of 8.5 sec. took one-tenth of a second off the U. S. record. The Penn Relay team won their race easily. They were anchored by Carl Coan who, generally...
...thoroughbred racing camel can run 150 mi. a day, carry a pack load three days without water. The best racers are Mehara dromedaries. They are mostly bred by that old tribe whose men haughtily and in disdain of modern usage still wear veils with their black tunics: the Tuaregs. The riders sit on small saddle-platforms placed in front of the dromedary's single hump. They hold rods in their hands and reach forward with a peculiar, tense movement to tap the camel on the left side of the neck when they want him to turn right...
...makes the first day he will lose the second. At Ghardaïa, the Mezabits rode out to meet the first camel which, heavy-footed, appeared on the desert's rim. The rider was one Mohamed Ahabi, the dromedary "Fleet as Sirocco." The pair had covered the 187 mi. in 33 hr. Ali Ben Maccha was still a mile away and one hour later Ben Orgha raced in for his certificate...