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...Zuezda (Berkeley, Calif.). Since no one person could comfortably read, much less intelligently compare, this avalanche of material, Henderson called on "the assistance of 147 staff and special contributing editors for this edition." Any anthology designed by so large a committee is bound to look more like a camel than a horse, and this one does. It is filled with ups and downs, the low points perhaps owing more to compromises than aesthetic judgment. The truly weak pieces prompt a disquieting question: If this is the best, then what must the worst be like...
...from what has been dubbed the Love Bone Bed-bits and pieces of more than 100 species of animals, many of them long extinct. All date back to the late Miocene epoch, about 9 million years ago. Among the finds: saber-toothed tigers, four-tusked mastodons, a giant camel some 18 ft. high, an extinct raccoon as big as a bear, various ancient horses and dogs -and the Carcharodon megalodon, a relative of the great white shark. As Ron Love puts it, "They had one hell of a zoo here...
...Students also found a mastodon, an ancestral kin of the elephant, with two pairs of tusks, the lower ones resembling shovels. For a time, they were also puzzled by what seemed an unusually large (nearly 3 ft.) metacarpal bone. It belonged to a creature called Aepycamelus major, the giraffe camel. No less surprising were the remains of a large triple-horned ruminant, or cud-chewing animal, called Yumaceras; fossils of one of these beasts were first uncovered in Colorado in the 1930s. Says Webb: "The bones add a great deal to our knowledge of this animal, which was heavy-footed...
...curiously remote from these toys, as he does from the bizarre Pee Wee, a giant black-and-white wooden rabbit that sits in his bedroom in Gracie Mansion.) There is a sculpture of Romulus and Remus under the wolf, and a photo of the mayor on top of a camel in Egypt...
...most controversial feature of the bill would permit banks or bank holding companies to take over weak thrift institutions. For that reason the bill is opposed by the U.S. League of Savings Associations, a lobbying group for the thrifts. Says a league spokesman: "It is the camel's nose in the tent that would lead to eventual interstate branching and interindustry combinations...