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Professor Dart's new finds came from a cave whose mouth is now 160 ft. above the Makapan River in the Transvaal. The cave's original floor is travertine rock, on which lies more than 50 ft. of sedimentary material. In one of the layers, close to the floor, are bones of Australopithecus prometheus, a small, spry primate whom Professor Dart considers at least semi-human. Prometheus, he says, ate baboons, may have stood upright and may have possessed fire. On the other hand, apparently, he did not know how to make stone tools or weapons...
Prometheus enjoyed the cave for thousands of years, perhaps beginning 200,000 years ago. Then something happened to the cave's mouth. It may have been enlarged by a flood (the river was near then), or perhaps some earth movement directed the current against it. At any rate, the cave filled many feet deep with waterborne gravel. It was still habitable, but prometheus seems to have left...
...hardly talk. Stanley didn't give a damn how he said a thing. His purpose was to convey his idea. He had no awareness of himself at all." As he lived the part, Brando dragged his audience back by the hair of their heads to the Neanderthal cave of human origin, and made them stare at the animal leavings on the floor. "It was awful and it was sublime," said one director. "Only once in a generation do you see such a thing in the theater...
...sailed under false colors for so long, our problems are miraculously solved. We may now carry our heads high again, with nothing to hide. But, alas, for those of us who were so proud. Perhaps the, bra companies will come to our rescue with a "Smash-it" or a "Cave...
...what of Britain, which had joined in last June's statement that if EDC failed Germany would be granted sovereignty and the right to rearm? Last week there were forecasts that Britain would cave in under French pressure and would not join the U.S. in pressing for German rearmament...