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Publicity & Psychology. The best explanation: 99% of the pox was produced by publicity and mass psychology. In city after city, careful study showed that most of the pockmarks were the result of normal damage-gravel, stones and other objects kicked up by a car ahead or blown by the wind. Glass experts pointed out that some of this damage might seem mysterious, because safety glass, hit by a piece of gravel, may suddenly develop a pockmark several hours later...
...Figure. Speaking to a Chicago convention of sand, gravel and ready-mixed concrete dealers, Congressman Cole revealed a single, overwhelming fact: "The thermonuclear test of 1952 completely obliterated the test island in the Eniwetok Atoll. It tore a cavity in the floor of the ocean-a crater-measuring a full mile in diameter and 175 ft. in depth at its lowest point...
...gravel and concrete men listened with solemn attention, looking at one another and shaking their heads in silent awe. They gave Cole a standing ovation for about one minute; then they filed out slowly and thoughtfully...
...plot is well known. Hard as it is to explain what makes any picture merely good, it is quite impossible to define the elements that make a picture worth seeing may times. It's not Marlene Dietrich alone. She's brassy and long legged, she's beautiful and gravel voiced: she's wonderful. But that can't be enough for motion picture immortality...
...teeth were more human thai, apelike, and there is evidence that, like Samson, he used animal jawbones as clubs. Dr. Dart also reported on a stone-working creature that lived in the Transvaal 500,000 to 750,000 years ago. His primitive "pebble tools" have been found in gravel pits, but no bones have been found...