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...command, a succession of murders and suicides, the discovery that full-scale atomic war has broken out on earth, and the knowledge that the rocket ship itself is almost surely doomed. Playwright Oboler seems indeed to be prophesying that the atomic age may end up with man as extinct as the great...
Last March, two Texas amateur archaeologists. Advertising Man WTilson Crook Jr. and Railroad Engineer R. K. Harris, found a peculiar stone spear point in a patch of charcoal-blackened earth a few miles outside Dallas. Near it were bones of now extinct animals: camels, horses, an elephant...
LONG-DISTANCE TRAINS will be all but extinct in two decades, says Donald J. Russell, president of Southern Pacific Co., second longest (12,435 miles operated in 1955) U.S. railroad. Reason, says Russell, who also predicts end of Pullman cars, is jet airliners, which will soon be capable of 1,000 m.p.h. speed...
...principality of Mindelheim for military aid to the Holy Roman Empire. In Britain, however, killjoy scholars stuffily pointed out that Sir Winston is merely a collateral descendant of the great Marlborough-and that only eight years after the princedom† was established it became, through a territorial reshuffle, extinct. Only title thus left to Churchill by his warrior forebear: Prince of the Holy Roman Empire (a tired old title not recognized in England...
...quote the Raven, "Nevermore." Only three ibi have ever been seen in New England, and this particular rara avis is now, as the Poonies say, rara than eva. He may, by the time you read this, actually have become extinct...