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From several holes in the ground, one as large as 12 inches in diameter, De Lumley has deduced that the roof of the dwelling was supported by beams or tree trunks. The people who lived there may have been pre-Neanderthal men, like those who inhabited a cave discovered earlier in Nice...
...Arizona Astronomer Gerard Kuiper, some parts of the moon could still present a hazard to landing spacecraft. Photographs from the U.S. Ranger 9 moon probe show that between 5% and 10% of the lunar surface is covered by depressions, apparently areas of thin crust that have sagged into caves or voids under the surface. Should a spacecraft land on such a crust, he believes, it might crash through into the cave below...
...TIDE (Philles). Few white singers can sing rhythm and blues like the Righteous Brothers ("blue-eyed soul," it is called), but for the moment they seem swept away by Wagnerian passions. In fact, the singing is all but drowned out by a symphonic surge apparently recorded in an ocean cave...
...pushed toward the trail around Thakhek and Savannakhet. Last month Royal Laotian T-28s trapped a company of mixed Pathet Lao and North Vietnamese troops in the open near Thakhek, killing dozens of the "Laoviet" with their 500-lb. bombs, while ground forces pinned another 40 in a nearby cave. Last week 14 of the North Vietnamese prisoners were on display in Vientiane...
...they have never quite forgiven Arthur for writing in Foreign Affairs two years ago, that newspaper and magazine stories "are sometimes worse than useless when they purport to give the inside history of decisions; their relation to reality is often considerably less than the shadows in Plato's cave." So often did he, as an insider, come upon distorted accounts, he added, that it was impossible "for me to take the testimony of journalism in such matters seriously again." As a man who, by his own admission, had deliberately misled journalists, he might have conceded that the distortions...