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Similar stones, probably held in the hand and used as crude axes or hammers, have been found elsewhere in Africa, but they are always accompanied by other kinds of stone implements. Arambourg concluded that the stones he found were made by an extremely primitive "humanoid" whose dim wits had discovered only this one item of stone-working technology...
...Crude oil, whose price had not been raised since 1947, went up 25? a barrel (to $2.90), even though there were some signs of an oil surplus. Said President John Brice of Carter Oil, a Jersey Standard subsidiary: "Costs of labor, materials and services have risen substantially, and an adjustment has been long overdue." The adjustment will mean higher home-heating costs next winter. Gasoline prices have already been raised in many states, and last week Standard of Ohio announced a boost of 1½? per gallon, the biggest...
...purchasing nations, the National Iranian Oil Co. has signed 25 sales contracts with Italian, Dutch, Japanese, German, Indian and Pakistani companies. Iran expects to export 1,000,000 tons of oil this year. By next year, Iran hopes to boost its sales to 8,000,000 tons of crude and refined, to fetch $70 million...
Pretending to be a work party, the three men walked out of camp and made their way through the "human danger zone" (natives and British search parties) toward the base of the mountain. Loaded down with heavy rucksacks, unarmed except for crude ice axes, without a map, they then invaded the "animal danger zone" (lions, leopards) and began to follow a stream which they hoped had its source high on Mount Kenya...
...Charivari, according to the Shorter Oxford Dictionary, is "a crude music made in derision of incongruous marriages." Composer-librettist-conductor Peter Westergaard has expanded this into a masque-like opera buffa that bubbles over with finess...