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...also reinforced the conviction of many of the foes of nationalization that the steel takeover is a doctrinal dinosaur in Britain's modern economy. Among them are two Labor dissidents, Desmond Donnelly and Woodrow Wyatt, who have threatened to either vote no or abstain when the White Paper comes up for debate in Parliament this week. Even from the Socialists' own point of view, argue critics with considerable logic, the money spent on nationalization might well be put to better service in the nation's elaborate structure of welfare benefits...
...totally responsible for all his misdeeds. He longed to be a guerrilla warrior. But offering a "good left opposition" inside the New Deal was a thing of the remote past; by the Haunted Fifties, America's left hand shrunk like a fried bacon strip. America had become a dinosaur with huge tail and tiny head. Our natural hostility to "the others," says he, ballooned into a drive to "kill the bastards and co-exist with ourselves...
...squishy soil of the La Brea Tar Pits, where saber-toothed tigers and Jack Benny's jokes once prowled. In fact, getting the O.K. to excavate required inspection by a team of archaeologists. They found old bones, but fortunately these were plain chicken. "If they had been dinosaur," says Museum Director Richard Brown, "we'd have taken four years longer to be here...
...outfitting any new museum involves prodigious effort. The old county museum was an attic for archaeology and science as well as art. "It was a historical anomaly," says Director Brown, "really a 16th century Wunderkammer, with everything but a unicorn's horn and an ostrich egg." Stutz Bearcats, dinosaur tails and mineral collections clamored for attention with the art works...
...museum opened to the public, there was already talk that it was obsolescent. Actually, it is more than talk; the building was constructed with $200,000 worth of extra foundations for new wings. According to Brown, it will not be long before the remainder of those dinosaur bones in the La Brea Tar Pits are covered with a newer, more elegant layer of civilization...