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About a year ago, Keith Glasscock, a pipeline welder and amateur archaeologist, spent a Sunday afternoon poking around the Scharbauer Ranch near Midland, Texas. In a "blowout" (a hollow scooped by wind), he found some Folsom points. When he returned a few days later, the wind had dug the hollow deeper. On the surface of the blowing sand were fragments that looked like broken human bones. Glasscock picked them up, but was wise enough not to dig without expert advice...
Stopping Dimwit. Another primitive African, undoubtedly human, was recently found by Keith Jolly of the University of Cape Town and described by Professor M. R. Drennan in Britain's Nature magazine. In a "blowout" (wind-eroded area) near Saldanha, 80 miles north of Cape Town, Jolly found the ground littered with the bones of extinct animals: mammoths, giant wart hogs and a primitive giraffe. Among the bones were 25 fragments that fitted together into a thick-walled, beetle-browed human skull...
...well drilling platform, 14 miles off the Louisiana bayou shore, there was a sudden roar. Into the air shot great hissing sheets of flame. What oilmen fear worst-a well "blowout" and fire-had set aflame two of Pure Oil Co.'s gas wells...
Near Rome, Orson Welles, who had just bought a new Lancia Aurelia for $4,629, had a rattling good shakeup, but no serious injury, when the car crashed into a tree after a blowout. Condition of the car: "completely ruined...
Triple Threat. Comedian Danny Kaye and his manager took out a patent on a new blowout paper toy for children. Instead of having merely one rolled-up tongue with a feather on the end, the Kaye version has three-one that shoots out to the right, one to the left, and one straight up in the air, to tickle the nose...