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...spirit not completely commercial, with authenticity. The whole picture-except perhaps for the Hollywood ending-carries a strong conviction to the moviegoer that what he is seeing is really happening; and the conviction is strongest when the camera is watching Jean Gabin, who is just right as un gros legume-a big vegetable...
Died. Adlai Stevenson, 92 (born Bear-in-the-Water), a chief since 1895 of the Gros Ventres Indians, who adopted the name of President Grover Cleveland's second Vice President (and grandfather of last year's Democratic presidential candidate) when he became a government scout; in Stanley...
...Ansiau, knight and onetime Crusader, sets out on a pilgrimage to Jerusalem, becomes blind on the way, is captured in the Holy Land by the infidel and lashed to a mill which he is forced to turn like an ox. His son Herbert le Gros, a gay blade who lives life to the hilt, meanwhile sticks to the manor, takes all the land and love he can get, and happily commits incest with his wild and passionate half sister, who hates him ("I shall . . . make his blood rot, send snakes to drink his eyes, and leeches to suck his heart...
Among the doubting Thomases about Piltdown man were the British Museum's Dr. K. P. Oakley and Oxford Professors J. E. Weiner and W. E. Le Gros Clark. They knew that when bones lie in the earth for a very long time, they accumulate fluorine. When the skeptics got around to a careful analysis, it showed that the relics of Piltdown man did not have enough fluorine to be extremely ancient. The skull fragments may be 50,000 years old, the age of many other human bones found throughout Europe. The jawbone, according to the scientists' report...
...persuade such skeptics, President Magloire plans to rely mainly on the gros nègres, the natural leaders of the rural communities, such as Dorneirl Romeus, 23, one of the first sharecroppers to lease five acres at Bois Dehors, the valley's pilot irrigation project. Dorneirl netted $211 on his first bumper rice crop; before, he lived all year on a near-starvation diet and ended up with $10 cash. Now farmers who know him are eager for the completion of the Artibonite project, so that they can follow his example. Reclaiming, leveling and watering the entire...