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There has been continuous habitation of the Hell Gap area since late glacial times, according to age determinations made by the radiocarbon method...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Diggers Find America's Oldest Dwellings | 1/5/1966 | See Source »

...glacial pace at which Robert Symonds has directed The Country Wife is a further handicap. Speed, as well as brevity, is the soul of wit, and double entendres go best at the double-quick. Tame Wycherley is lame Wycherley-which is precisely what is wrong at Lincoln Center...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Bad Restoration | 12/17/1965 | See Source »

Purebred Siamese. Capucine's secret is that she carries over to the screen the grand hauteur she learned as a haute couture model, then plays her glacial poise for laughs. Not even the antics of Peter O'Toole and Woody Allen could persuade the Pussycat to purr, but fanciers, fatigued with Ursula Andress as an alley cat and Romy Schneider as a kitten, applauded Capucine's purebred Siamese and gave her a bigger share of laughs in a Sellers market. In Panther, she kept a straight face while she slammed the door on the nose...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Movies: The Hottest Icicle | 12/10/1965 | See Source »

Rats and Stocks. Wolfkill's account of what happens to free men from a 20th-century society when they fall into the hands of primitive tribesmen just converted to Communism is blunt, jolting and thorough. A man of almost glacial self-control, ex-marine Wolfkilt became the natural leader of the American captives as they fought to preserve not only their lives but their sanity through more than a year of abject misery...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Committed Men | 10/8/1965 | See Source »

Ironically, the Irish law was already so well publicized by the time it became effective last week that every major British lamister had long since flown the coop, leaving only about 70 penniless petty crooks to be extradited to Britain−and with glacial calm, British police had neglected to send effective warrants to Ireland for them. Indeed, Britain's own law still lacks the "royal assent" needed to make it official, leaving Britain's Irish fugitives safe for some weeks to come. When the new system does shake down, though, the crook's tour across...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International Law: Crook's Tour | 8/27/1965 | See Source »

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