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...extending backwards the length of time that human beings have lived in North America, their European colleagues go them one better. Archaeologist James A. Ford recently reported traces of human settlement in northern Louisiana that he reckons to be 2,700 years old. Last week Professor Alberto Carlo Blanc announced the discovery of man-made tools near Rome "over 200,000 years...
Prehistoric Pompeii. Professor Blanc's discovery near Rome not only predates Homer but may even date back to Java man, who roamed the Southeast Asiatic area in the early part of the glacial epoch. A professor of human paleontology...
University of Rome, Blanc hit upon the Torre site by accident. In the grass at the bottom of a hill 13 miles northwest of the Colosseum, he picked up a curious object that turned out to be the fossilized tooth of a prehistoric elephant. Professor Blanc borrowed a fleet of bulldozers and scraped until, 138 feet down, he exposed the remains of a primitive campsite strewn with hand axes and stone flakes. Many of the bones of the deer, elephants and horses that lay alongside had been cracked open by the hand-ax wielders, apparently in their search...
Lake Geneva glistened and Mont Blanc kept distant watch. In the frescoed hall of Geneva's Palais des Nations, the chiefs of government of four of the world's most powerful nations sat down at the green-leather-topped tables. They came attended by guards, fussed over and briefed by attendant swarms of experts, backed by libraries of data and filing cases crammed with plans. President Eisenhower was chairman of the first session, and therefore in position to set the tone...
...advance guards of the 700 delegates and 1,200 newspapermen were thronging along with the vacationers into the gleaming city that confronted the distant white crown of Mont Blanc: the French and British discreet and inconspicuous, the Russians discreet and conspicuous, the Americans crewcut, bow-tied and well-scrubbed...