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With the match decided in the singles, the doubles matches became a formality. A return to artic weather took its toll on the first doubles team of Californians Levin and Jarvis, as they bowed 6-4, 7-5. The Adelsberg-Davis and Gonzalez-Hodges Combinations won in straight sets...
Though it was cold, the hunters clung there from year to year. During the next two thousand years it grew much colder and damper--a sub-artic world like the present-day tundras of northern Europe. In this severer climate, new species of plants and animals thrived, while others which previously had flourished declined. And the Stone Age hunters, no longer able to stand the winter, went south each fall with the migrating herds of reindeer, to return again in the spring to their favorite camping spot beneath the rocky shelter...
...plant and animal life of the time, Movius' group concluded that the first inhabitants of Arbi-Pataud--as it is called--lived there year-round in a cold temperate climate. The second group migrated to and from the area on an annual basis as the climate became sub-artic...
...discovered that for years the signs have been spilling over with misspellings that nobody ever noticed. One notice allowed that the black bears are "excellent swimers." Another, for the red fox, whose Latin name Vulpes fulva was spelled Vulpes Tulva, explained: "Range: Forrest regions in the temperate and sub-artic parts of both old and new world." The cherry-headed mangabey, read another sign, makes "speach-like sounds," while the eland runs in "large heards." The bear is famed for "it's strength and ferocity," and ostriches for "there keen sight and wary nature." Acting Zoo Director Vincent...
This year's trip the twenty-eighth for MacMillan, is being sponsored by Bowdoin College, for the purpose of obtaining specimens for its proposed Artic Museum...