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This fresh view of Teotihuacan is based on a combination of archaeological investigation and computer analysis. Mexican, U.S. and Canadian researchers, under the leadership of the University of Rochester's Rene Millon, have spent years mapping the city and collecting more than a million artifacts, mostly pottery shards and tools but also human and animal remains. After identifying and cataloguing the pieces from each location, the scientists ran their data through a series of computer programs designed by Physicist turned Archaeologist George Cowgill of Brandeis University. These enable them to determine, for example, if a particular site...
...city die? Researchers found no signs of epidemic disease or destructive invasion. But they did find signs that suggest the Teotihuacanos themselves burned their temples and some of their other buildings. Excavations revealed that piles of wood had been placed around these structures and set afire. Millon speculates that Teotihuacan's inhabitants may have abandoned the city because it had become "a clumsy giant ... too unwieldy to change with the times." But other archaeologists think that the ancient urbanites may have desecrated the temples and abandoned their city in rage against their gods for permitting a prolonged famine...
...delivers as many as 40 speeches a day. During the six-week campaign, she will have visited all of India's 19 states, traveled tens of thousands of miles, often in a caravan of gleaming white World War II-vintage jeeps, and spoken to an estimated 100 millon people...
...avid collector, Los Angeles Industrialist Norton W. Simon, 61, over the past four months alone has acquired, among other art works, a Picasso, two Cezannes, three Pissarros and a millon-dollar Manet. As a company collector, Simon has been buying up businesses for years. Now, he is forming the bulk of his collection into one assemblage. Last week the directors of his Hunt Foods & Industries and two companies it controls-McCall Corp. and Canada Dry Corp.-agreed to form a single company, which will be called Norton Simon...
...eight years out of graduate school, Carter became the $60,000-a-year merchandise manager of the May Co. in Los Angeles. Today he is the president and chief executive of California's 28-store Broadway-Hale retailing chain which he has built from a three-branch, $30 millon-a-year operation into the West's largest department-store group (1964 sales: a record $219 million...