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...Nature, Professor Raymond A. Dart of Witwatersrand University tells about a valley in South Africa where humans may have lived continuously ever since humanity began. Such a place is something of a freak because the earliest humans were scarce and furtive creatures, chivied from place to place by changes of environment and predatory beasts. The remains of different types are generally scattered widely, a few bones here, a few bones there...
...Thurston Dart, a fellow of Jesus College, Cambridge, will give a free harpsichord recital on Dec. 10 at 8:30 p.m. in Fogg Court...
Until the Sea Dart's scattered remains are brought up and studied, no one is able to guess why it exploded...
Less happy was a second Convair-Navy demonstration. As observers watched, Test Pilot Charles E. Richbourg taxied the experimental XF2-YI Sea Dart (TIME, Feb. 16, 1953) across San Diego Bay on its retractable "hydro-skis." The jet seaplane took off, circled the bay, screamed in for a 400-m.p.h. pass at the shore. Suddenly, 300 ft. above the water, the Sea Dart fell apart in a gush of flame and a shower of metal fragments. Pilot Richbourg lived only two minutes after rescuers pulled him from...
...People's Poland." She lives on yoghurt and corn bread, scurries home each night to her lonely, thimble-sized flat, and keeps telling herself that Paris is wonderful. But the only Paris Kristina knows, the goldfish bowl of the "Maison Deschamps," she hates. Through its ornate rooms dart and swish mannequins, sellers, fitters, designers and spying competitors. To Kristina the whole place is as zany and false as the brassiere on the statue of the sphinx in its show window...