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...proved to be the occipital (posterior) bone of a human skull, and its position in a stratum containing crude flint hand axes and the bones of long-extinct animals made it exciting news in anthropological circles. Marston soon found a second bone (left parietal) which fitted the first bone perfectly. The two bones were enough to give some idea of an extremely ancient kind of man who lived along the Thames about 250,000 years ago, before the last of the great glaciers crept over England...
...persistent haunters were the Wymers. Bertram Wymer had been digging for antiquities since he was 19. His wife adopted his hobby on their honeymoon, and son John started digging as soon as he was old enough to handle a small trowel. In Barnfield Pit they found plenty of crude flint tools, but for years neither they nor other diggers found anything very interesting. The great prizes-more bones of "the first Englishman" or clues to the life he led-did not show up in hundreds of tons of carefully picked-over gravel...
...despite such flaws, the Salute-To-Ike dinners were an occasion for high emotions. In Flint, Mich. an audience of 635 alternated between wild cheers and near sobs. In Chicago Vice President Richard Nixon wept silently in the darkened amphitheater while Ike, speaking from Washington, expressed his thanks for the tributes that had been paid him. And Dwight Eisenhower's own eyes glistened with tears as he sat in the ballroom of Washington's Sheraton-Park Hotel and watched the television scenes flashing from city to city, with speaker after speaker talking directly to the President, thanking...
...Flint from London, Paris, Madrid, Rome, Mexico City and the other cities of the non-Communist world? Not far, in the sense that a prosperous, strong U.S. economic system is clearly the basis for the record-breaking prosperity of the whole free world...
What's Good for Flint. In another sense -the sense of setting an example-Flint is farther away but getting closer. Britain, eying the freely competitive U.S., has this year been hearing its strongest parliamentary attacks on monopolies, and may wind up with the first antimonopoly bill in its history. Last summer, news of the U.A.W.-Ford guaranteed annual wage agreement rocked the national convention of France's 2,000,000-member Confederation Generate du Travail, and seriously weakened Communist control. In today's booming Federal Republic of Germany, an industrialist who has not been...