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...walls of London's Australia House last week, painted beings with white, mouthless faces wavered. Some of them appeared to be swimming in seas of little kangaroos, ducks, lilies and yams. They were copies of rare aboriginal cave paintings found in the Kimberley district of Northwestern Australia-and they looked a good deal fresher than the child's play of much modern...
...cave paintings are among the oldest art known. The reason they looked so fresh was that every year, for centuries, Australian aborigines had retouched them with red and yellow ocher and pipeclay white. The aborigines believe that wond'ina-the strong, gentle spirits of rain and fertility-made the pictures originally, by casting their shadows on the rocks...
...Cave-Dwellers' Paper. The Star caters to the "cave-dwellers"-the permanent residents, scorning what McKelway calls the "short timers." The cave-dwellers get their names in the paper regularly, at social gatherings and community club meetings. They can't do without the oldfashioned, fussily-detailed front-page cartoons, drawn in familiar, familial style by 77-year-old Clifford K. Berryman and his son Jim. And the best-read feature is Charles E. Thracewell's This & That column, which is about birds and bugs...
...Eastern Front, the Germans had been devastatingly thorough. The old, walled Polish city of Cracow remained, in a sea of flattened middle-European towns. Kiev went the way of Warsaw, and with it the onion-domed Pechersk Lavra (cave monastery) which was the first fountainhead of Russian Christianity...
...Roman path. It may be fanciful to imagine that any afflatus of high statesmanship passed from Caesar to his noble and valiant adversary Cassivellaunus, or that by any mystical communion a spark of the Virgilian light of empire was tended through the centuries in Merlin's cave. Yet somehow the grand ideals of Roman dominion have not been lost in the modern world: jus, the conception of a law that should transcend the limitations of the small people who first conceived it, and become at last the guarantor of justice to all sorts and conditions of men; imperium...