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...couple in passionate horizontal embrace was rotated 90° and ran vertically in the Times-in compliance with the paper's upright code. Another ad filled with misspelled suggestion ran in the Times one day-and was censored the next. Copy plugging a movie title, The Cave Girls, read "See What the Girls Did 50,000 B.C. (Before Clothes) (Costumes by Mother Nature)"-but only in Hearst's Los Angeles Herald-Examiner. In the Times the ad came out: "See What the Girls Did 50,000 B.C. ( ) ( )." Even...
When Vespasian finally took the citadel, Josephus went into hiding with 40 other Jews in a cave beneath the city. His companions were resolved to resist to the death, but Josephus, impressed in spite of himself by Roman might and discipline, wanted to surrender. To solve the impasse, Josephus proposed a kind of Jewish roulette: they would kill each other, one by one, by drawing lots; the survivor would then kill himself...
Peterpat. In primordial days, man went forth from his cave to vie with Tyrannosaurus rex. Nowadays, he leaves his office cubicle to do battle with Tyrannosaurus regina-his wife. That is the sempiternal issue with which Enid Rudd has made her playwriting debut in this wry, observant, warm and almost steadily amusing comedy...
...sector, they dug a 448-ft. tunnel that emerged in an unused shack in the yard of an apartment house at 55 Strelitzerstrasse in East Berlin. Digging in shifts around the clock, 40 ft. underground, the men were hardly able to breathe. Again and again the tunnel threatened to cave in because of Berlin's sandy soil. Several times, seepage from underground mains almost forced them to abandon the project. But they kept digging. They installed a ventilation system, used walkie-talkies to warn of the approach of Red Vopo patrols. At the West Berlin entrance to the tunnel...
Luck and ingenuity keep him alive. He stumbles on a cave that gives some shelter and contrives to start a fire with yellow rocks that burn like low-grade coal. On the third day, oxygen gone, he discovers that the rocks release it when they are heated, and in jig time he rigs up a pressure cooker and replenishes his tanks. A few days later, led by the small South American monkey that shared his spaceship, he finds a spring of clear water, and in the water a plant that bears edible tubers...