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...fossils were seized last year by officials of the Argentinian province La Rioja from an expedition which Romer headed. They are valuable, Romer said, because they are all "new animals"--genera and species not know before. They are fossils of small reptiles from the Early Triasic Period, 200-250 million years...
Although all fossil collecting is under control of the Argentinian government, the provincial governor of La Rioja defied the law and issued a personal decree forbidding the removal of any fossils from La Rioja. He was responding to a "they're robbing the province of its natural heritage" campaign which began when the value of the expedition's find became known...
Romer said that several Argentinian papers subsequently criticized the governor's action, "a national scandal." The governor remained adamant until two months ago when he agreed to release the fossils for five years' study. However, the fossils are still in La Rioja. Romer said he expects to get them eventually...
...Argentinian sociologist will come to Harvard next semester and will become the fourth Latin American expert to join the Faculty this year...
...Just released by RCA Victor is a recording of the Jazz Suite on the Mass Texts by Argentinian Pianist Lalo Schifrin, who has worked with Dizzy Gillespie. Blending cool and bossa nova-like rhythms, Schifrin composed his setting of prayers from the Roman Catholic Mass out of conviction that the vitality of jazz is the best way to modernize the spirit of church worship. High point of the record is Schifrin's eerie, agonized Creed: behind the free-form obbligato of Paul Horn's alto sax, the eight members of a chorus autonomously sing, at their own pace...