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...Middle West is littered with deposits of rocky glacial debris, in widely scattered areas and apparently dating from widely separated eras. Most glaciologists account for them by a theory that the huge Pleistocene glacier advanced and retreated four times, dropping its deposits each time as it melted back. Last week Professor Richard J. Lougee of Clark University, Worcester, Mass., offered a new theory. At the Washington meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, he argued that the glacier did not retreat, but stayed in place so long that its enormous weight pushed a giant dimple...
When the glacier finally drew back toward Canada (about 23,000 B.C.), the unburdened crust began to recover, and the dimple flattened out. Ohio, Iowa, Michigan and Wisconsin rose out of the Leverett Sea. The broad estuary that led to the Gulf shrank to form the modern Mississippi...
Happy Burial. The Kore and other archaic statues were preserved by a happy chance of Greek history. In 480 B.C., invading Persians broke up the Acropolis statuary. But the Persians were defeated and turned back in Themistocles' great naval victory of Salamis. Returning, the Greeks piously buried the fragments of the sacred statuary on the Acropolis itself...
Unitas had to do the job against the toughest defense in pro football. The Giants' defensive team had already blocked a Colt field-goal try, smeared Unitas himself at crucial moments, made a devastating goal-line stand inside its own 5-yd. line and had roared back from a 14-3 half-time deficit on the wings of aging (37) Quarterback Charley Conerly's passes for two touchdowns...
Stores turned to the January white sales and seasonal clearances with inventories lower and spirits higher than in years. The brightest post-Christmas promotion was put on by Dallas' A. Harris & Co. For one day, it announced it would take back any "Christmas gift which doesn't fit, which is the wrong size or pattern or color, which is simply not wanted, or which duplicates another Christmas gift." For the first time ever, the offer was not restricted to Harris' own merchandise. Except for furs, real jewelry and merchandise not carried in its own store, Harris said...