Word: mcnair
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While the unfolding mystery of Stonehenge traces some surprising knowledge of astronomy back to Stone Age Britons, the steadily growing evidence of paleontology is tracing life itself farther and farther into the past. Last week Dartmouth Professor An drew McNair reported to the Geological Society of America that he had discovered the remains of advanced forms of life 120 million years older than any recognized before. As for simpler, one-celled organisms, Harvard's Elso S. Barghoorn told the society that he has found them to be a billion years older than anyone had previously suspected...
Another discovery, that of Andrew H. McNair, professor of Geology at Dartmouth cast doubt on the theory that a rapid change in the earth's atmosphere caused an "evolution explosion" in which advanced life forms suddenly developed...
...McNair discovered a tiny, clam-like fossil on Victoria Island, Canada, which is according to the radio-isotope method, at least 720 million years old. The oldest advanced organism before the discovery were 600 million years...
...knew how gold prospectors felt when they stumbled across the mother lode," McNair said of the find...
Nevertheless, South Carolina's Donald B. Russell, 59, last week quit as Governor, turned the post over to Lieutenant Governor Robert E. McNair, 41, who then appointed Russell to the Senate seat left vacant after the death of Olin Johnston on April 18. Johnston was a Senate veteran of 21 years who made his Capitol Hill name as chairman of the patronage-wielding Post Office and Civil Service Committees and maintained his home-state political power through a vast network of country-store and piny-woods cronies...