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...ribs Army red tape, imagining Paul Revere, under present-day methods, trying to get a horse; it ribs the housing setup for veterans ("I can put you on the waiting list for a cave"). In its funniest skit, it offers an infantryman's conception of life in the Air Forces-toast after toast in champagne to "the Blue Lady of the clouds," love-maddened women, tony chatter, youths who moan: "Look at me, 22 years old and still only a major!" And one of its liveliest ditties spoofs the Army as a character builder...
Scranton had fallen on evil days. Anthracite had once been king in the Lackawanna Valley, but the king was dead. Hard coal diggings had scarred Scranton's hills and undermined its streets; the exhausted mines threatened to cave in the whole economy of the polyglot community among the culm dumps of Northeastern Pennsylvania. Even the war had given Scranton only a cardboard security...
...through the crags and ravines of the Bosnian mountains. Early in the winter they discovered his snowbound hideout, kept him on ice until the thaw, then pounced. Last week Tito's Government triumphantly announced that they had captured the bushy-bearded, bespectacled Chetnik leader sitting in a mountain cave, guarded by only eleven soldiers of his once-powerful army...
More hard-rock miners die every year from silicosis than from cave-ins. Silicosis is a degeneration of the lung tissue caused by microscopic rock dust particles...
Peking Man-Sinanthropus pekinensis-was the paleontological sensation of the 1920s. To Paleontologist Roy Chapman Andrews, Peking Man "ranks as the most important discovery in the whole history of human evolution." His first traces-two teeth-were found in 1921 in a "dragon-bone" cave* at Choukoutien, 40 miles southwest of Peking. Digging continued through 1941 under a grant from the Rockefeller Foundation. High point was the discovery of the first skull in 1929. Geological data indicated that Peking Man lived over 500,000 years ago, which would make him older than the Piltdown and Neanderthal Man and possibly...