Word: buts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Such deliberate mummification was practiced chiefly by the ancient Egyptians. But when Dr. Mori took the mummy back to Italy and had its age measured by the carbon 14 method, it proved to be 5,400 years old-considerably older than the oldest known civilization in the valley of the...
The mummy does not prove that there is a civilization buried in the Sahara but it does mean that, in the next few years, the desert will be swarming with anthropologists looking for one.
One man with an outside chance to outdrive Brabham for the championship in the last Grand Prix race of 1959 was Britain's nonchalant Stirling Moss, 30, who, on a good day and when his car holds up, is probably the world's best driver. But Moss, who...
Although his championship was safe, Brabham decided to try to win the title in style. Burning .rubber, he was in first place and in the last mile of the 218.4-mile race when his Cooper-Climax faltered and stopped, just 500 yds. from the finish line; a leak had emptied...
Dietzel v. Vaught. But from the start, young Perry Lee seemed to listen most respectfully to two top men of the tough Southeastern Conference: Louisiana State's blond, boyish Paul Dietzel, coach of last season's national champions, and Mississippi's canny, reticent Johnny Vaught, coach of...