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...Museum and the Field Museum in Chicago have already changed their Brontosaurus heads. What makes the Peabody's fossil surgery so interesting is that the original foul-up was caused by one of the 19th century's most celebrated bone collectors, Yale's own Othniel Charles Marsh...
Reported by Marsh Clark/Salisbury
First glimpses of the new format-which was to begin appearing regularly this week-were greeted enthusiastically by advertisers, who rushed to take advantage of a half-rate introductory offer. "It sounds like a good paper," said Donald O'Brien, marketing vice president of the Jordan Marsh department store. "We're going to help promote it, and we're going to be in it heavily." Added Filene's sales vice president, Virginia Harris: "It's a smart move because it is so totally different from the Globe. I think they've got a good...
...neutral role. Explained a U.S. official: "We are prepared to take the heat and hope that by taking heat we might facilitate compromises in the long run," meaning that support to South Africa now might translate into a settlement with Pretoria on Namibia later. -By Russ Hoyle. Reported by Marsh Clark/Johannesburg
...that prehistoric menagerie came out of a hole about 150 ft. long, 60 ft. wide and 25 ft. deep, abutting Florida's Route 241 outside of Gainesville. It was excavated at the site of what once was a fast-moving stream that flowed into a great salt marsh along the Gulf of Mexico. Bodies of dead animals collected in the water, and the remains sank to the bottom of the stream. As layer after layer of sediment piled up, the stream eventually vanished, but the bones of the fauna were fossilized and preserved...