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...found what is probably the first authentic bone of Folsom Man, a mysterious race of hunters who lived 10,000 years ago. Shay went bone-hunting with Jerry Ainsworth, a student at Eastern New Mexico College. Near a small stream called Blackwater Draw, they found the skeleton of a "dire wolf," a husky, toothy, carnivorous beast that died out toward the end of the glacial period...
...Dire wolves are respectable finds for any amateur digger, but among the bones of this one was something even choicer: a stone spearhead with oddly fluted sides. It proved that the dire wolf had been speared and possibly killed by a Folsom hunter. It also hinted that other Folsom remains might be found near by. In Pleistocene times Blackwater Draw must have been a sizable river, just the place for ancient hunters to use as a camp site...
Makki returned recently from Washington, announced that he had "documents" and "proof" of all kinds of dire interference by Acheson and Truman. When able U.S. Ambassador Loy Henderson successfully rebutted the charges, Mossadegh forced his Deputy Prime Minister to go before a packed Majlis and admit that he had no proof or documents of any sort. Makki never forgot or forgave this...
...Thursday night, went to the Ragged School," he wrote, "and an awful sight it is ... I have very seldom seen, in all the strange and dreadful things I have seen in London and elsewhere, anything so shocking as the dire neglect of soul and body exhibited in these children." Again, he describes to Miss Coutts a slum called Hickman's Folly: "wooden houses like horrible old packing cases full of fever for a countless number of years. In a broken down gallery at the back of a row of these, there was a wan child looking over...
Like many reports, the Financial Report is in dire need of spring housecleaning. Many little odd balances could be written off with ease, but I sympathize with you. Such errors as $143.40 from the National Research Council for making and testing of a series of sound slide films on a single subject, under the direction of the Late Francis T. Spaulding Professor of Education. Spaulding left Harvard in 1945, and died...