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...Robot" (pronounced ru-bow) Davenport tells the story of the discovery of the Lascaux cave in southern France, the site of some of the earliest prehistoric paintings. According to this version a dog named Robot chasing a rabbit actually discovered the cave. Henri Breuil, a French Jesuit anthropologist provides Davenport with a voice to describe the caves as brains for the earth. Breuil talks about his discoveries in China, Africa, the Altamira caves in Spain where Picasso studied the ancient bull drawings for the bull he painted in "Geurnica." Everything becomes interconnected in Davenport's stories; history isn't simply...
Some cynics assumed that a deal had been struck between Ford and Nixon in the fateful early days of August: Nixon would quit if Ford would agree to pardon him at the earliest feasible moment. But that seemed highly unlikely, particularly considering that the pressures on Nixon to resign grew irresistible after it was revealed?three days before he quit?that Nixon had long been involved in the Watergate cover-up and had repeatedly lied to the nation about his actual role...
...economic summit" of top Government officials, corporate executives, bankers, labor leaders and private economists to seek agreement for a concerted attack on inflation-and pledged to preside over its sessions in person. Administration officials later suggested that the meeting might be televised and named Sept. 15 as the earliest date on which the "summit" could be held...
...circled the moon while fellow astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin became the first human beings to take an extraterrestrial walk. Now a brigadier general (U.S. Air Force, ret.), Collins is director of the Smithsonian's Air and Space Museum, which will soon house flying relics from the earliest balloons through Skylab...
Animal Crackers, one of the earliest and funniest of the Marx Brothers movies, is playing at the Cheri in Boston after 18 years of being stored in the can. If you want to treat yourself to a nice, but expensive, present, definitely...