Word: ancients
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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SEASHORE STORY by Taro Yashima (Viking; $4.95). An ancient Japanese tale of a fisherman who went away to the bottom of the sea on the back of a turtle and stayed so long that no one remembered him when he returned. Illustrated by the author with beguiling watery pictures...
...their pendulous ear lobes and quaff their favorite brew of clotted steer's blood, curdled milk and cow urine. Now Tanzanian President Ju lius Nyerere has decided that it is time for the Masai to pick up some civilized habits. In a policy designed to stamp out "ancient, unhealthy customs," he has ordered the 100,000 Masai to put on some clothes, abandon their tribal rituals and start doing their share toward reaching the goals he holds for Tanzania...
...rose without warning from the water. All that the predator left behind was the victim's head, which sank to the bottom and became embedded in the sand. In New Haven, Conn., last week, some 28 million years after this hypothetical drama, Yale Paleontologist Elwyn Simons displayed the ancient skull and reported that it belonged to the most primitive ape ever discovered-the earliest known member of man's family tree...
Scientists established the age of the ancient skull by using the potassium argon method of dating an overlying lava flow, which is apparently 26 million years old. The location of the skull, 300 ft. below, indicated that it was about 2,000,000 years older. Aegyptopithecus, Simons believes, "stands near the very base of the genealogical tree leading to later Great Apes and man. It represents a major stage in the documentation of the forerunners...
...moons and pie cuts look as though they had been stamped out on a machine. They were, in fact, designed with the aid of a protractor and compass, although unlike many minimal sculptors, Stella still believes in executing his works by hand. The paintings were named (Sabra, Sinjerli) for ancient cities in Asia Minor only because Stella has been looking at plans for circular cities in a book on Islamic architecture...