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...Provence village of Bargème is scented by lavender from the nearby Alpine foothills, and its pastures are dotted with herds of grazing sheep. At the start of the 1960s, it was smaller (pop. 65) and, if anything, more charmingly bucolic than it had been in the Middle Ages. The few visitors to the town, an hour's drive northwest of Cannes, usually came to view its medieval ruins-a chateau, a church, towers and gates that had decayed into an exquisite stone latticework. In 1961, Bargème found a benefactress-or rather, Madame Germaine De Maria...
...much heat and pressure that all organic traces they once contained have been turned to shapeless specks of carbon. One notable exception is a hard, black, ancient rock found near Gunflint Lake in western Ontario, which somehow escaped this rough treatment. In the magazine Science, Paleontologist Elso S. Barg-hoorn-of Harvard and the late Geologist Stanley A. Tyler of the University of Wisconsin describe the remains of microscopic organisms that lived in that "Gunflint chert" - an impure silica -about 2 billion years ago, 1,800 million years before the earliest dinosaurs...
...number of new stands have even been set up on the field to accommodate the expected overflow crowd. Manager Porky Barg is conducting a last-minute drive to secure a band for the occasion...
...traveling unit includes, besides the prospective starters above, Paul Birdsall, Sid Clark, Fred Coburn, Paul Davidson, Bill Graham, Rick Hudner, Bill Kegg, Bob Lange, Bill Plissner, Dick Post, and Manager Porky Barg...
...Chairman, C. P. Berolzheimer, Mrs. C. P. Berolzheimer; J. A. Arena, Frances Macbeth; J. A. Arena, Frances Macbeth; J. Arena, Marion Weloh; S. M. Barg, Helen Berolzheimer...