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...went home to his small Ukrainian town after four years in the Army found his house destroyed and his family scattered. After reassembling the remnants of his family, he asked the town authorities for a house. They gave him a slip of paper entitling him to buy an ax and showed him on a map a 100-square-yard plot in a forest near the town. "Make yourself a house," they said. The officer went back to Berlin...
Most cooking methods-baking, boiling, frying-date from stone-ax days. They all heat food from the outside in. The Raytheon Co., prolific spawner of radar tubes, has shown short-order cooks something new; a "range" which cooks food from the inside...
...people were eating venison. A lot of old poacher's tricks were as good as ever, although discretion was necessary. An overanxious hunter in Puente, Calif, got arrested last week after he chased a buck up the road with his automobile and lopped off its head with an ax...
...diggers probed the relics left by this simple people, they found unsimple things. The La Ventas were remarkable artists, who carved hardest jade into human figurines, ornamented ax heads, beads, earplugs, pendants. They were excellent potters, too. Example: a baked clay whistle in the form of a realistic bird, which gives the cry of the bird it represents...
...Prokosch, V. S. Pritchett, Sean O'Faolain) to write for Tomorrow. She kept her psychic secrets pretty well out of it. People who wanted to know what her aim was got a steady, blue-green stare and a soft answer: "I have no bone to bury, and no ax to grind. But I have a policy: I believe in the humanities, and in common decency...