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...desert camp site is only partly excavated, and still may be hiding a lot of answers archeologists would like to know. If Harrington finds bones of animals around the ancient hearths, he will be better able to fix the date of the "Pinto culture." Bones of American camels, or long-horned bison, for instance, would prove that the camp site was inhabited in the late glacial period. If he finds a fair set of human bones, he may establish Pinto Man's relation to other Early Americans, and to the latter-day low-cultured Indians who lived in Southern...
Senator Arthur Hendrick Vandenberg was still not talking, but the word went out last week that he is available for the Republican presidential nomination and that he would accept it. This was, perhaps, the biggest news of the political campaign to date...
...Post Office Department celebrated the 30th anniversary of the first airmail flight-a deed of derring-do by an Army pilot who, on May 15, 1918, flew 144 lbs. of mail 218 miles from New York to Washington in a World War I "Jenny." On the anniversary date, two jet planes flew eight ounces over the same route. Time: 27½ minutes...
...Charles River, Harvard's once-beaten crew won the Eastern Championship over nine rivals and thus boosted its chances of becoming the U.S. Olympic choice. Yale, ahead until the final few yards, was second. Harvard's big rival is now unbeaten Cornell. Cornell had kept a date with unbeaten Wisconsin on Lake Mendota, won by half a boat length...
...went on to add that perhaps a few extra advertisements might be added to the Red Book to help "even things up," but hastened to make clear that the publication date would not be affected at all by the robbery...