Word: caving
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Bone & Helmet. While the Shay discovery was in the works, other Southwestern amateurs were busy. Two high-school teachers of Tucumcari, N. Mex. found a dinosaur leg bone 4½ feet long. A group of officers from Sandia Base, poking in a cave near Socorro, N. Mex., found all sorts of 1,200-year-old Indian stuff, including yucca-fiber ropes and a pouchful of oddments that were the professional equipment of an ancient medicine...
Near Tucson. Ariz., two Boy Scouts found a cave with seven human skulls covered with bat guano. Just to be safe, they told both the sheriff and the archaeologists. The skulls proved to be intermediate between crime and science: a few hundred years old. José Abeyta, head of the council of San Juan Pueblo, turned up a Spanish helmet from the days of the early conquerors...
Segment Three of Washington society is the only segment which Segment Three acknowledges. It is composed of the old Washington families, or "Cave Dwellers." Its leaders-generally Republican, generally of advanced age-are inclined to look upon the Eisenhowers as people come to rescue them after 20 years of darkness and horrid sounds. But they will want to look sharply at the deliverers before giving complete approval. The interest in Segment Three is mainly speleological...
Gonzélez did not try to convert his rough-walled cavern into a conventional church interior. At the inner end of the parallel tunnels, where the final cross.-shaft formed an end wall, he mined out an apse -a rounded cave in line with the nave. He paved the innermost 150 ft. of the nave and aisles, wainscoted the wall and pillars in brick or limestone...
...When he was a five-year-old boy in Joplin, Mo., William Edward Cook was pushed out into the world on his own; his ne'er-do-well father abandoned him in a deserted mine cave. Because he had a deformed right eyelid nobody wanted to adopt him. By the time Billy was 21 he had served time in both Missouri reform schools and the state penitentiary, had the words H-A-R-D L-U-C-K tattooed on the fingers of his left hand and had resolved to "live by the gun." During a murderous...