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Boston University forward Bill Bishop and forward Dave Lumley and defenseman Jim Harvie of the University of New Hampshire all received suspensions. Officials from their respective schools, however, said that they would not protest the NCAA rulings...
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...
Although the De Lumleys found no bones of those early cave dwellers, they did uncover indisputable signs of their presence: choppers made from pebbles, sharpened flints and bones, and even antlers that had been fashioned into tools. Says De Lumley: "The discovery of such pebble tools-man's oldest, most primitive tools-establishes for the first time the existence of a 'pebble culture' in Europe." He and his wife also discovered the teeth and bones of elephants, lions, panthers, bears, cheetahs, hyenas, wolves, porcupines, deer and antelope, rhinos, hippos, even seals and whales, and those animals...
Canning's story is brisk, but one cherishes his characters. Blanche Tyler, a blowsily sensual gypsy medium, is commissioned, innocently enough, to locate Shoebridge as the heir to a fortune. Amiable George Lumley, a garrulous middle-aged failure, does Blanche's detective work for a fee-and a night in bed. Then there is Miss Rainbird, a conventional spinster and country heiress out of Jane Austen...