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Intriguing Age. Sympathetic to the intense interest of scientists, officials of Nashville's First American National Bank revised plans for the foundation of the building so that the tiger's natural tomb (actually a large underground cavern) would be left intact while construction continued around it. The bank's gesture quickly paid dividends. A team of amateur diggers, led by Ferguson and Anthropologist Ronald Spores of Vanderbilt University, found the bulk of the remaining pieces of the tiger's skeleton as well as more fossils, including the bones of several other extinct creatures apparently killed...
...formal opening of the new bank building this month, some of the bones will go on public display. Bank officials are also preparing to let archaeologists resume their digging under the building-though under a watchful eye. After all, says Vice Chairman William Greenwood, with tongue in cheek, the cavern is only 50 yards from the bank's vault...
...Kennedy Institute of Politics, and Harvard's Kennedy School of Government. For the present, all the memorabilia, books and papers are stored in the Federal Records Center in Waltham, one of a dozen depositories for bureaucratic red tape dotting the United States. There, in a temperature and humidity controlled cavern which makes the Widener stacks look like a tot lot, the government has stored about 10 million pages of Kennedy's papers, along with 2 million pages from the Democratic National Committee. There are 30,000 books, 62,000 photographs, 2 million feet of motion picture film, and 1000 oral...
...identified the crater as a "sinkhole." It may be the largest yet (as much as 425 ft. across and 150 ft. deep) in a growing number of such cave-ins that have pockmarked central and northern Alabama in recent years. Sinkholes often occur when the roofs of underground limestone caverns suddenly collapse. Government scientists are not yet sure what is causing the rash of sinkholes in Alabama (at least 1,000 in Shelby County alone in the past 15 years). But Hydrologist John G. Newton thinks that they may be the result of a natural-or man-induced-lowering...
...cavern on the corner of M 'n Wisconson Avenue...