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...another spot. His father tried it and struck a cool, clear gusher. Pieter nodded wisely. Some years later his schoolteacher lost a gold ring under the sand and Pieter found it for him with a single glance. Ever since then Pieter (now 16) has been kept busy peering through rock and sod in search of underground treasure...
Last week, after drilling for 18 days through 140-odd feet of hard rock, the engineers hit water. Salisbury, announced the mayor proudly, was now assured of at least 403,200 gallons a week...
Surrealist Landscapes. A sense of wonder pervaded the journals that Lewis & Clark kept. They expected to find mammoths and perhaps stranger prehistoric creatures. There was said to be a mountain of solid rock salt somewhere along their way, 180 miles long and 45 miles wide. They came into a land where they were shut in by steel-blue mountains, so alike that they seemed to have come into a country of mirrors. Once Meriwether Lewis, exploring alone the Great Falls of the Missouri, found himself studying the water foaming over the high masses of rocks. Below him the Missouri stretched...
...contributions so far received by TIME have been sent to Navajo Assistance Inc., Box 106, Gallup, N.Mex. Readers may also send contributions to J. M. Stewart, Superintendent of the Navajo Reservation, Window Rock, Arizona...
...rock crystal Easter egg rimmed with diamonds and topped with a rare 27-carat Siberian emerald. By twisting the emerald and peeking into the egg, the Czarina could see twelve gold-framed miniatures of her favorite palaces, radiating from a thin gold axis...