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...party, led by Museum Director John O. Brew, Peabody Professor of American Archaeology and Ethnology, found the remains of two Indian huts at Hell Gap near Guernsey, Wyoming. The huts were built 10,000 years ago, 6000 years before the oldest previously dated houses. Until the recent discovery archaeologists believed that the early Indians were strictly nomadic...
...only one satisfactory answer. "Like a small star," he says, "Jupiter is still contracting somewhat under the force of its own gravity." As the planet contracts, Kuiper speculates, the compressed and solid hydrogen mantle that envelops its molten core occasionally cracks open, releasing the vast amounts of heat that brew Jupiter's mysterious storms...
...company's sales of $23 million last year (up 15%) came from a variety of enterprises. Like most German breweries, it owns and leases restaurants and beer halls to make sure that only Lowenbrau-German for "lion's brew"-is served in them. Löwenbräu is also a Munich Coca-Cola bottler. But beer remains by far the company's biggest product-26 million gallons this year. It comes in 16 varieties, from a 1.5% light beer for expectant mothers to a heady 6% brew so nourishing that Bavarian monks in the past drank...
Bergman and the cast sing two other marvelous tunes: one ("Let Us All Thank Satan for His Brew") is a highly sucessful imitation of a Negro spiritual. The other ("Crushing the Grape") hits with very clever lyrics and a snappy honky-tonk melody. Of the rest, only "My Fellows I Am Minded" is definitely second-rate...
Licorice extracts have been used since the days of Hippocrates for the relief of indigestion, but Scientist Doll has little faith in old wives' remedies. Still, he could not forget that digitalis, the first useful drug for heart disease, came from an old wives' brew of foxglove, and he remembered that a Dutch pharmacist had made a reputation during World War II selling a licorice concoction for ulcers. Dr. Doll decided that there was no harm in trying...