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Girl from Laguna. The oldest human remains discovered in North America so far were found by chance. Howard Wilson, 17, amateur collector of arrowheads, was scratching around near his Laguna Beach home in 1933 when he uncovered a skull. His mother suggested the garbage pail as a suitable receptacle; Howard stoutly held out for a shoe box and eventually gave his find to a museum. Many years and expert examinations later, it was established that the "girl from Laguna" had lived between 15,000 and 18,000 years...
Coles records a lingering (and lately reinforced) populist disgruntlement with big business, as well as a sensible cynicism about the "selective sympathy" of liberals and radicals. Over the lunch pail they may sometimes sound (and know they sound) like Spiro Agnew or George Wallace, but they are aware that such politicians are mainly-perhaps only-concerned with getting their votes...
...between church and state so high," says Ervin, "that no one can climb over it." Though a strong law-and-order man, he vainly fought the Nixon Administration's District of Columbia crime bill with its controversial "no-knock" and preventive-detention provisions. He called it "a garbage pail of some of the most repressive, intolerant, unfair and vindictive legislation that the Senate has ever been presented...
...bases so that Sarah could "write" them on a magnetized board. With practice, Sarah learned that a blue triangle meant an apple, a red square a banana. In time she mastered symbols identifying each of her four trainers, plus other symbols identifying colors and familiar objects such as a pail, a cup and a dish. For example, stands for red, for dish...
...When he enters the mines with his dinner pail...