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Uncovered in the summer of 1953, the site has been dated in the Upper Paleolithic era, going back 18,000 to 25,000 years. Preliminary excavations, Professor Movius reported, unearthed a very large series of flint pieces and, more important, "better preserved and more complete mammalian material than as been recovered in recent years...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Professor Discovers French Deposit of Flint-Age Bones | 1/15/1954 | See Source »

Nearly every motorist would like a sports car-or something close to it-if it had the comfort, roominess and reasonable price of the traditional family auto. In Flint, Mich, this week, Buick's General Manager Ivan L. (for Lester) Wiles, 55, took the wraps off what he thinks should fit the bill. It is Buick's Century, a new line that comes close to being a sports car for the family...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUTOS: Buick's Bid | 1/11/1954 | See Source »

...cave at Sandia, about 15 miles outside Albuquerque. His anthropology professor, Frank Cummings Hibben, examined the cave and got pretty excited himself. On the cave's lowest level, Hibben's party found fragments of the tusk of a Pleistocene mammoth, along with a few ancient flint spearheads...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Early American | 12/28/1953 | See Source »

...this purpose, Actor More invites on the spin a flashy young brunette (Kay Kendell) who. after a number of frantic breakdowns ("Better try a new flint!" hollers a passing motorist), begins some calculated conversation with Gregson's wife. "All Ambrose seems to think about are that silly old car and the other thing." The wife answers bleakly, "My husband only thinks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Nov. 30, 1953 | 11/30/1953 | See Source »

...Training. In Flint, Mich., arrested for forging $558 worth of checks, John A. McLeod, 25, tried to convince police that he was a college student majoring in criminal psychology who wanted "to get the feeling" of a criminal at work...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Nov. 16, 1953 | 11/16/1953 | See Source »

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