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Since the days of the Conquistadors Mexicans had heard cries in the night from that haunted spot near Taxco. They called the 20-ft.-wide hole in the ground the Devil's Nostril, knew it as a pit of death. How many skeletons were mouldering on the bottom, how deep it was, no man could say. Geologists had once probed 380 ft. straight down; one man had once descended part way, and lived to tell about it. He found two Aztec daggers...
Three weeks ago a citizen of Taxco went down the Nostril all the way, and did not come back. With him he dragged a Taxco policeman. Two others confessed that they had been hired to do in the man of Taxco. Taxco's mayor, a citizens' committee and the officials of American Smelting Co., which has twelve mines in the vicinity, decided at long last that the pit had its fill. Workmen were sent to seal the Devil's Nostril. When they are finished, 20 ft. of logs, concrete and boulders will cover its secrets...
Technique. The earliest cave pictures were not painted but scratched on walls with sharpened flints. Profiles were absolute with but single fore and hind legs, and lacking were such details as hooves, eyes, hair and nostrils. But as Aurignacian scratching developed into painting, remarkable sophistication of draftsmanship appeared. In the Montignac group, stiffness of profile has relaxed and action abounds - the beasts run, leap, browse, swim, lie down, chew their cuds. The head of an ancient long-horned cow (see cut) displays an excellent eye and nostril, subtle shading and dappling. To the Paleolithic artist, the more realistic...
...dark, quiet room the investigators put the patient on his back. They passed a slender tube through one nostril into his stomach, so that a sample of the stomach fluid could be tapped at any time. They talked soothingly to him, urged him to relax and think peaceful thoughts. When he was in a good frame of mind they took a stomach sample. Then they began to talk with him about other things (with the tube through his nostril he could talk well enough)-unpleasant things, things that made him resentful, anxious, angry, frustrated. They continued their calculated tactlessness till...
Behind all Mr. Quezon's dance steps was the threat of Japan, crouching 1,300 nautical miles north, her horn-rimmed eyes on British and Dutch Borneo and Australia, one nostril delicately cocked at the Philippines. A Japanese once remarked to a Filipino politician in Manila: "If we invade you it will only be to teach you that you are not occidentals." As Mr. Quezon well knows, Japan would not even have to make a military invasion. Quezon's islands would drop like ripe fruit. Japanese farmers already have a strong foothold in the archipelago, and Philippine independence...