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...horse, which Magi described as having "an expressionless and towering head similar to that of a mule." And curiously, the horse was bridled, though Michelangelo made a habit of painting horses without bridles. Last summer Magi persuaded a Vatican colleague, Professor Deoclecio Redig de Campos, that the strange beast might be the result of overpainting by some unknown bungler. De Campos took an infra-red photograph, which showed that there was indeed an other head beneath the first...
Hibben thought the remains had been left by an ancient human hunter, who had dragged the beast's carcass into the cave. He christened him Sandia Man. He estimated that Sandia Man was of an even earlier generation than the 10,000-year-old Folsom Man, whose traces were first found in Folsom, N.Mex. in 1925-and, later, on a higher level of Sandia Cave. But other scientists treated the findings with skepticism. There was no proof, they said, that Folsom Man had any ancestors on the American continent...
...There came to power in the South politicians such as "Pitchfork Ben" Tillman, governor and later Senator from South Carolina, who publicly proclaimed that the Negro was biologically inferior to the white man. When "inoculated with the virus of equality," said Tillman, the Negro became "a fiend, a wild beast, seeking whom he may devour...
Whatever portion of the blame for this you assign to the public, a good share must go to those professors and students who completely discount public opinion as irrational blabbering of a "great beast." And part must also go to university officials who carried traditional Harvard indifference to the point of refusal to dignify charges with convincing replies. Freedom of inquiry and publication may have made inevitable the University's acquisition of a Red label in the thirties--a label fixed even firmer in the last three years by those who hunt throughout history to make headlines. But the University...
...Unveiled. The Air Force at long last released pictures and a sketchy description of the Douglas X-3 research plane first taken into the air by Test Pilot Bridgeman, who considered it a "nasty little beast" (TIME, April 27). Actually, the X-3 is heavier and slightly longer (66 ft. 9 in.) than a DC-3 transport, but its wing span is only 22 ft. 8 in., less than the span of a DC-3's tail. The wings themselves are short even for this penguinlike spread, because the fuselage has to be thick enough to hold...