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During Austrailia's Stone Age, which Captain Cook doomed in 1770, the aborigines painted on cliffs and in caves. Today their descendants explain that ancient rock pictures of hunting and dancing stick men, in northern Australia, were done by Mimis. ("Mimis" are so thin they can hunt only in still weather, and so shy they have never been seen.) For the haloed, mouthless figures painted in caves in the Kimberley district, they have a different explanation: Wondjina (gentle fertility gods) first made them by casting shadows on the rock. Before each rainy season, the aborigines retouch the divine shadows...
...filed 1,400 claims to 56,000 acres, and set off a rush that brought 8,000 claims from other prospectors. To develop the claims on the south end of their property. Hirshhorn & Co. set up Pronto Uranium Mines, and landed a $55 million government contract. To develop the northern claims, they set up Algom, of which Hirshhorn owns a million shares (36%), Preston East Dome 1,250,000 (45%), Hirshhorn's friends another 100,000. and the public only 400,000 shares. Last week, with Algom stock selling at around $16, Hirsh horn's direct and indirect...
During the Northern Hemisphere's winter, a summer of a sort comes to the great white continent of Antarctica, bringing 24-hour-a-day sunshine and a brief, spongy softening of the coastal pack ice. That cold and flowerless southern summer is the season when dedicated men arrive by ship or plane to extend man's scanty knowledge-and tenuous possession-of the earth's most inhospitable region...
Human history passed a critical transition when wandering hunters settled down in permanent villages. Archaeologists have reason to believe that this experiment in communal living was made for the first time in Iraq or Iran. Dr. Robert Braidwood of the University of Chicago has reported finding in northern Iraq a village so crude that it seems to be close to the ancient transition point...
...plant, to be built and run by E.N.I.'s subsidiary, A.N.I.C. (Azienda Nazionale Idrogenazione Combustibili), will enable Italy to make better use of its methane, now used as fuel for northern Italian industries. As fuel, the gas would save Italy some $7,000,000 annually in imports. By using the same amount of gas to produce fertilizer and rubber, Italy can make enough money to balance out $40 million worth of imports. Eventually, as rubber production climbs, Italy even hopes to sell enough to supply a large portion of Europe's synthetic-rubber needs. Furthermore, E.N.I...