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...lima bean people lived on their flat for more than 1,000 years. About 2700 B.C., 1,000 years before Moses, they disappeared. For 2,000 years the site went uninhabited; then the wholly different Chavin people, complete with cotton, pottery, and many other attributes of higher civilization, set up more advanced housekeeping on the flat where the Chilcas had lived...
...somber string bean from the Wairarapa district of New Zealand, Bob Charles, 27, belongs to an exclusive minority-he is a lefthanded golfer on the U.S. pro tour. That alone is enough to make him the hero of 400,000 amateur lefties who wire him encouragement and even dip into the cooky jar to bet on their boy against the likes of Arnold Palmer and Jack Nicklaus. Those bets have begun to pay off. Last April Charles became the first left-hander ever to win a major pro tournament when he took the $10,000 top money in the Houston...
Never Too Late, by Sumner Arthur Long. Unexpected fatherhood at 60 turns Paul Ford's face into a contour map of morose grimaces, the mere contemplation of which sends audiences into typhoons of laughter. Orson Bean mirthfully adds to the fundemonium...
...unquestioned lord of his vessel. Some top admirals of the U.S. Navy carry this quality to shorebound duties in the Pentagon. But nowadays they are questioned by an equally authoritarian operator, Defense Secretary Robert Mc-Namara. And right in the middle of these collision-bound forces sits a string bean of a Texan who holds down one of the most impossible jobs in Washington: Navy Secretary Fred Korth...
...Back in Bean's Bag (Coleman Hawkins, Clark Terry; Columbia) was intended as an epochal encounter between Hawkins' tenor sax and Terry's virtuoso trumpet. Then something went wrong; the true soloist turns out to be Tommy Flanagan on piano. During Hawk's flights of fancy, a wildly distorted recording balance hides the horn behind the accompaniment...