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When he was told that the little cornfield on the banks of the Illinois River was strewn with old Indian arrowheads and pottery shards, Northwestern University Archaeologist Stuart Struever decided to do a little spadework, hoping to unearth an ancient Indian settlement. What he found exceeded his wildest expectations. The plot, owned by a farmer named Theodore Koster, may well hold some of the most important archaeological remains ever discovered in North America...
Excavating steadily for the past five summers in Koster's cornfield, which is 45 miles north of St. Louis, Struever's team has dug up the remnants of at least 15 separate prehistoric settlements. Stacked atop each other in easily distinguishable layers-or horizons, as archaeologists call them-the individual settlements were in remarkably good condition. They had been so well preserved by covers of protective dust, which blew down from nearby bluffs after they were abandoned, that they can be "read" by archaeologists like pages of a history book. The oldest layer dates back some...
This year's Cornfield exposé cost the Sunday Times $60,000 and the team nine months. They interviewed more than 500 bankers, brokers and other sources and got additional reports from a score of Sunday Times correspondents from La Paz to Seoul. "At the stage where other papers are ready to publish, we're just beginning to dig," explains "Insight" Editor Barry. In the Philby story, for example, they did not rest their case after the cloak-and-dagger investigation was ended. They went on to examine Kim Philby's background and early life...
Marriage Proposals. On a night-ambush patrol, he tried to place his men quietly in a cornfield, but "it kept going crunch . . . I dropped my rifle once and I couldn't find it. I realized, God I'm spooking the water buffalos, and 1 have herds overrunning me. I'm waking the V.C. nation...
...enjoy doing what I have to do sometimes," commented Harry Tatelman, the Universal producer who supervised the new version of Three Into Two Won't Go, "but there are business decisions." Josef Laytes, the man who directed the remaking of both the Hall and Cornfield films, admits that "when I first got the job I was a little unsure about what I was doing." Then he became interested. "I didn't really think about whether it was ethical or unethical. It was a creative challenge...