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Professors Elso S. Barghoorn of Harvard and Stanley A. Tyler of the University of Wisconsin announced last week that they had found the oldest fossils so far. In a layer of flint beneath an iron ore deposit in Ontario, they identified two kinds of algae, two of fungi and an organism that they believe may be a calcareous (containing calcium) flagellate. None of them are striking in appearance; they are much like primitive organisms that are still living...
...plant fossils were taken from a deposit of flint rock in the gunflint formation near Schreiber. Out The two researchers identified their find as "the oldest structurally preserved organisms which have been discovered in pre-Cambrian sediments." They are "of great theoretical interest in the evolutionary scheme of primitive life...
...show's best items, Zerbe set an old man with vertically furrowed face and sharply structural features against a background of high buildings. The man's face seems to be made of the same rough masonry as the building; Zerbe mixes mica, sand or flint with his plastic to give a rougher surface. Three Doors is a semi-abstraction in quiet reds, mauves and greens which conveys the dilapidated dignity of the hallways of old brownstone tenements...
Since then, Harlow Curtice has never slowed his pace. Up at 6 a.m. every morning, in his suite in the G.M. building in Detroit, he spends upwards of 14 hours a workday on the job, usually sees his family in Flint, his hometown, only on weekends. Though head of the world's biggest manufacturing corporation (1953 sales: an estimated $11 billion), he is not above taking a complaint about service personally over the phone from a G.M. car owner, and doing something about it. Design is his hobby, and the new cars incorporate some of the features...
...last year, the most optimistic estimate in the industry. G.M.'s new $1 billion expansion program, which is in addition to the $2 billion already spent since war's end, will give Chevrolet a new spring-and-bumper plant and another small-parts factory in Flint, Mich...