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...projection. It is a typical member of the Coelacanths, a primitive fish family which first appeared 300,000,000 years ago when the only land animals were amphibians, and which was widespread and flourishing when the Age of Reptiles was just getting under way. The family has been considered extinct for 50,000,000 years because that is the most recent date assigned to any Coelacanth fossil found in the rocks. Thus the discovery of a live Coelacanth in the world of airplanes and television is as surprising, from an anatomical and evolutionary point of view, as would be that...
Thus the nearly extinct Czecho-Slovak Republic still survived last week with a 50-ft. front on Washington's Massachusetts Avenue. Czech consuls in other U. S. cities followed Minister Hurban's lead. In Minneapolis, Consul Charles E. Proschek said: "I have never received any instructions or training in rules of etiquette on what to do when confronted with international bandits. . . . They can go back whence they came with my compliments." The State Department soon made known that it would in no way assist the Nazis to seize the Czech Government's property...
Through all this Minister Hurban refused to show any sign of being downhearted. At the State Department he ran into Dr. Fernando de los Rios, Ambassador of the nearly extinct Spanish Republic. As two men-without-countries they shook hands, had a laugh together...
Last week while Germany was grabbing Bohemia and Moravia by the scruffs of their necks and whistling Slovakia home, the little Kingdom of Hungary was being allowed to make a grab of its own in the Carpatho-Ukraine, the easternmost prov ince of now extinct Czecho-Slovakia. Long have Poland and Hungary wanted a common border for protection against Germany. Last fall, when Czecho-Slovakia was amputated, they almost got it. Last week, when Adolf Hitler wiped Czechoslovakia off the map, they...
...American Indian art, housed in one wing of the handsome Federal building. To two kinds of visitors it gave pause and enlightenment: 1) those who think that "civilization" came to North America with the white man; 2) those who think that pre-white civilization is now cheapened or extinct. The man who made both views appear distinctly stuffy was René d'Harnoncourt, Austrian-born artist, teacher and brightest young blood in the Interior Department's Office of Indian Affairs...