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Volume 13, Number 3 March 1962

In This Issue

March 1962
City From The An Age Of Heroes
Photographed by T. F. Walters

Persepolis—like a brilliant mirror—reflected the glory of the great kings who built the palace city.

 
Oasis Fruit

An Arabian proverb explains that the date palm thrives when "its feet are in water, its head in the fires of heaven."

 
Student Life At The First University

It is surprising to find out what life was like for a college student almost a thousand years ago.

 
The Threat Of Soviet Oil

What's behind the marked-down price tag on every barrel of Russian oil unloaded at a Western port?

 
The Vet

Animal doctoring is thought to be as old as Babylon—4,000 years—and as vitally new as space research.