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...degrees S. lat.) following the S-shaped outlines of the continents on either side. A sheer 9,000 feet of height, it towers in the way of deep sea fishes scurrying from Pernambuco to Benguel. Its knobby head rises curiously above the waters in the north (Azores plateau); St. Paul, Ascension Island, and Tristan da Cunha mark its southern peaks...
...drag net for evidence of the sunken continent will be spread for the most part around the Azores, because in addition to the myths of the past, a recent U. S. Navy surveying expedition brought back bathymetric maps of a submerged plateau with terraced shores in this vicinity...
...recently expressed will of 78% of her 250,000 subjects, the Grand Duchess Charlotte, 32, reigns and rules over Luxembourg. Her richly wooded and softly meadowed realm dozes complacently between Belgium and Germany. Her capital, the City of Luxembourg, rises aloof and serene upon a small plateau. Her mild and irreproachable consort is Prince Felix de Bourbon-Parma. Last week a dire project was under way to introduce into this quiet Eden a prodigious roisterer, a mighty brawler, a veritable Serpent...
...Charles Augustus Lindbergh hopped off from airport at Williams, Ariz., in his new and unchristened Ryan monoplane, landed on plateau six miles away, climbed out, went to nearby ranch, asked astonished owner for some lunch, got it. Inhabitants of Williams heard Col. Lindbergh's plane was down, rushed to plateau in automobiles, found plane unharmed, found note in Col. Lindbergh's handwriting stuck in window: "Gone to lunch...
Robed and stately sheiks of the Arabian plateau gathered, last week, to imprint loud, smacking kisses of fealty on the tip of their potent Sultan's nose. The monarch thus saluted was Abdul Aziz Ibn Saud, bronzed and stalwart Sultan of Nejd, King of the Hejaz. He subjects his nose to kisses, instead of receiving bows of homage, because his subjects are of a fanatically orthodox Moslem sect, the Wahabi, and hold that the pious should bow only to Allah. Last week the Sultan and his devout Sheiks were persistently reported to have launched a "Holy War." Menaced areas...