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...came to light in 1965 when Chester Gorman, a Hawaii graduate student, poked into a cavern called Spirit Cave by the Thais: it had served as home for untold generations of farmers and was filled with relics of their handiwork. In a thorough excavation the expedition has since found crude Stone Age tools and a number of ancient seeds-peas, beans, cucumbers and Chinese water chestnuts -of a size and type that indicate that they were grown...
...umbrella pines and artichoke fields, and until recently artichokes were the main preoccupation of Farmer Luigi Franco and his son Francesco. Not any more. Last July Francesco broke a plow on what turned out to be the limestone roof of an ancient Lucanian tomb. Such tombs, decorated with the crude paintings of the local tribesmen who made them, have been found before in southern Italy. But this one was different. When excavated by Archaeologist Mario Napoli, superintendent of antiquities for the district of Salerno, the walls of the tomb were found to be covered with accomplished paintings that to Napoli...
Looking to Alaska. The real issue is protectionism and the conflicting pressures, demands and interests of domestic and foreign producers, as well as consumers. If all controls were abolished, foreign crude would inundate the U.S. and put domestic producers out of business. Though the domestic producers have drunk long and deeply at Washington's subsidy well, they do provide insurance against foreign price rises. There is also the balance of payments to consider and the claims of Canada and Venezuela to a continuing place in the U.S. market...
...effect has been to encourage the search for ever more costly and marginally economic wells in the U.S. Proponents of restriction continue to argue that the U.S. should not become overly dependent on Middle Eastern oil sheiks, or beholden to them in its foreign policy. But, since Middle East crude now accounts for only 3% of U.S. oil consumption, there is obviously room for much expansion of imports without tying the U.S. too closely to possibly erratic overseas sources of supply...
...Yablonski's stronghold along the West Virginia-Pennsylvania border, where crude, hand-lettered Yablonski campaign posters still dot lampposts and telephone poles, his supporters suspected that the union was responsible for the murders. During four days of wildcat strikes, up to 19,000 miners angrily walked off their jobs, closing down a number of mines. Yablonski's two surviving sons, Kenneth and Chip, both lawyers, issued a statement saying: "There is no doubt that these horrible misdeeds are an outgrowth of our father's most recent bid to win election...