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...Laughing Stock purports to be irreverent musical and political humor. Like so many things that resort to describing themselves as irreverent, it's spotty. It's playing in a cafe-like atmosphere in The Grotto, 'neath Henri IV, at 96 Winthrop Street. Tues--Thurs...
...mixed with the green and brown of Marin heights across the channel. Ray and I climbed down on the deep-scarred rocks and went into a small cave hidden between a deep cut in the rocks. We could hear the small waves smack crisply outside, but inside the small grotto our voices were dull and hollow. Ray began talking about school...
NESTLED IN a basement grotto in Quincy House is the cluttered headquarters of the Harvard University Debate Council. In this room, unnoticed by the rest of the University, undergraduate debaters devote countless hours to preparation for a national schedule of tournaments. In 1961 and 1969 their efforts brought Harvard the Sigurd Larmon trophy, intercollegiate debate's Stanley...
Until recently the Continent's most ancient inhabited site was thought to be Czechoslovakia's Stranska Skala Grotto, where archaeologists have found tools that are some 700,000 years old. Now Prehistorian Henry de Lumley is convinced that manlike creatures lived and worked in the Riviera cave at least 1 million years...
Glacial Age. De Lumley, a Marseille University professor, who with his archaeologist wife Marie-Antoinette has been excavating the grotto for a dozen years, bases his estimate on paleomagnetic dating of the clay in which traces of ancient man were found. During a period of warmer temperatures some 1½ million years ago, De Lumley believes, the waters of the Mediterranean rose and waves battered the hillside, enlarging the limestone grotto, and leaving the various fossilized fish, mollusks and tiny marine organisms that have been found in the cave. About 1 million years ago, the sea retreated...