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Clues to a possible explanation were recently uncovered at the bottom of the sea by Geologists Bruce Heezen and Bill Glass, of Columbia University's Lamont Geological Observatory, who were investigating some strange, glasslike fragments known as tektites. Many scientists believe that the tektites, which are found in several areas around the world, were formed when meteorites or comets collided with the earth. The en- counters were so catastrophic that bits of the earth, as well as chunks of the intruder, were hurled into space and then fell back. Heated both by the impact and their swift passage through...
...distribution and radioactive dating of these tek- tites, scientists had long assumed that the meteorite weighed a few thousand tons and struck about 700,000 years ago. While he was examining sediment cores taken from more widely separated locations on the floors of the Indian and Pacific oceans, Geologist Glass discovered tiny tektites, apparently from the same meteorite. To have littered so large an area, Glass and Heezen calculated, the meteorite could have weighed a billion tons and might have been as large as a mile in diameter. Even more intriguing, further examination of the sediment cores indicated that...
Such are the policies of the papers' general manager, Carter Glass III, 48, grandson of Woodrow Wilson's Secretary of the Treasury, who fills both his news columns and his editorials with the kind of racism that has disappeared from most Southern dailies. It takes very little to ignite Glass's legendary temper. When one of his photographers scuffled briefly with a Negro high school teacher last year, he was outraged that the police failed to arrest the teacher. When the police and the city manager ignored his demands for an apology, he went on an editorial...
Last week, with the city's Negroes threatening to stage a mass demonstration against the papers, the whites decided that they had had their fill of Glass. To every household in Lynchburg went an open letter signed by 71 leading white citizens, including the presidents of the Chamber of Commerce, Lynchburg College and Randolph-Macon Woman's College...
...Carter Glass III responded as expected. In identical editorials in both papers, he wrote: "Allegedly in the cause of brotherhood, a group of Lynchburg organizations and individuals have issued an open invitation to racial agitators to come into the city of Lynchburg and attack the Lynchburg newspapers as well as other local institutions." As for the obituaries, wrote Glass, it is a well-known fact that Negroes do not want "free" death notices but "integrated" ones. Glass does not intend to desegregate death in Lynchburg...