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...observe for the record that I consider this unusually rusty," said the Canadian, examining the grenade, while the crump of artillery and air strikes echoed across from South Viet...
Anthropologists unearthed him in 1856, and described him as a beetle-browed, bent-kneed apeman, though his cranium (at 1,600 cc.) was more capacious than that of a contemporary brain (averaging 1,450 cc.). Writers as disparate as Irving Crump (Og) and William Golding (The Inheritors) patronized him as a subhuman slob. Yet Homo Neanderthalensis, so named for the Central European valley in which his bones were discovered, survived for 2,000 generations and seems to have had the same sensitivities as his descendants. Writing in the monthly report of the French Prehistoric Society, Archaeologist Arlette Leroi-Gourhan described...
...area, the Sabra does not accept defeat. During the war Naomi sat in the cool semi-darkness of one of Ayeleth's concrete shelters, and sang "We Shall Overcome" to the faint crump of Syrian shells. The shelter's occupants were not as sure of their impending triumph as foreign experts. They knew only that if Syrian troops swarmed down from the brown hills across the Jordan, they would have to fight to the last woman and child. The Syrians would leave no one alive. "I was not afraid," says Naomi without hesitation, "Only worried--about my brother...
Died. Edward J. Meeman, 77, editor from 1931 to 1962 of the Memphis Press-Scimitar, who championed the TVA against private power owners and spent 20 years fighting Memphis Political Boss Edward H. Crump ("May his machine be cast into the junk heap"), finally won the engagement in 1948 when the Press-Scimitar's backing, against Crump's bitter opposition, helped put Estes Kefauver in the Senate; of a heart attack; near Memphis...
Unless the New York Establishment fencers crump altogether, Harvard's swordsmen will be in for a gloomy week at the Eastern Intercollegiate championships today and Saturday...