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...beard, space shoes, Lambretta, cigarette lighter, or scarf is needed for admission to Poet's Theatre's current offering, The Compromise, which even your Bradford Junior or Wellesley girl will understand. 8:30 p.m. today...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WEEKEND EVENTS | 4/21/1956 | See Source »

...Wenner-Gren Foundation ($250). With the help of two hired laborers, they found buckets of flint chips, tools and animal bones. Then Lea Wymer found something odd in the same deep stratum: a bit of black stuff the size of her fingernail which looked like rock but felt much lighter. A few days later she and Bertram and John all found more. They took the collection to Dr. Kenneth Oakley of the British Museum of Natural History, who is the leading authority on Swanscombe man. Last week Dr. Oakley announced that the black objects are carbon, probably charcoal from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The First Fire? | 3/26/1956 | See Source »

...transportation problem was not as serious in Saturday's 5.7 inch snowfall as in the harsher storms this month, however. Cambridge traffic was reported to be lighter than in earlier snows, and the MTA had all its lines running yesterday for the first time since March 16. Logan Airport was closed Saturday, but leading airlines announced normal service resumed since 5 a.m. yesterday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Saturday Snowstorm Causes Car Towing; Irish Cancel Parade | 3/26/1956 | See Source »

...atom subs) SSGN 587 was only the latest of a series of unpleasant undersea developments. Fortnight ago the Mare Island yards began work on Sargo, the U.S. Navy's fifth nuclear-powered submarine, and the first to be built on the West Coast. Shorter (257 ft.) and lighter (2,300 tons displacement) than Nautilus, Sargo will combine Nautilus' endurance with greater speed and maneuverability, and when she is commissioned in 1958, she should be the world's most effective submarine. Sargo's pre-eminence promises to be short-lived, however...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DEFENSE: New Power in the Depths | 3/12/1956 | See Source »

...combination of an Eli team expecially strong in the lighter weights and an injury to Captain Phil Burnaman put the varsity out of the match quickly. Yale had a 19 to 0 lead before Bob Gilmor defeated Bulldog captain Roger Hinkson, 6 to 0, in the 167 pound division...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yale Wrestlers Beat Crimson, 22-8, For 22 Year Streak Over Varsity | 3/5/1956 | See Source »

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