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...Angels, high school dropouts and stay-ins alike, pile in by the thousands to writhe to the electronic thunder of the Byrds, the Jefferson Airplane and the New Generation in such clubs as It's Boss (formerly Giro's), The Trip (once the Crescendo) and Pandora's Box. Teen Idols Sonny & Cher invented folk rock there and, at the same time, set off the craze for ruffled bellbottoms. The Strip became the perfect place for flaunting rebellion, for catching the latest underground movie at the Cinematheque and for trying on the newest fads, from pressed-straight blond...
...Pandora's Box. An unknown aboriginal people built the washboard-like excavations possibly more than 1,000 years ago, using only the crudest implements, without benefit of metal tools or draft animals. Their motive remains a mystery, although some speculate that the shallow channels lying between the ridges may have carried water to or from grain or root crops grown on top of the long mounds...
...Professor James Parsons and Graduate Student William Bowen report in the Geographical Review that the area once may have supported as many as 80,000 people, a vastly greater aboriginal population than has ever before been attributed to such an American tropical lowland. The discovery, they write, "opens a Pandora's box of questions relating to cultural origins." To which Parsons adds, "The discovery might even have implications of transpacific migration...
...position that once the Pandora's box of chemical and biological weapon is opened, only the most benign will come for the is unrealistic." they said...
...desire for peace in Southeast Asia, the pause and the diplomatic offensive had done much to convince skeptical allies and neutrals that Hanoi, not Washington, was barring the way to the conference table. But that was about all it had achieved-and at the same time it opened a Pandora's box of problems...