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Digging down through the debris before finding Egbert was like journeying into the past with a time machine. The cave was a very desirable parcel of Stone Age real estate. Family after family had lived and worked in its shelter, gradually raising the floor level with dirt and refuse. In the upper layers tools and weapons were comparatively sophisticated. Grinding stones showed that Neolithic exquisites had used pigments for painting or cosmetics. Lower down, artifacts were cruder...
...Association, in Manhattan, Dr. Kinsey stuck to his guns-arguing, even more emphatically than he has before, that man's sex habits aren't very different from those of other mammals. Most of man's sexual behavior that is now considered abnormal, he said, is "part & parcel of our inheritance as mammals and is natural and normal biologically." It is, he said, scientifically sound to look to mammalian background "as sources of human behavior." He was seconded by Yale Psychologist Frank Beach, who has studied sex habits from shrews* (mouselike mammals) to humans. Dr. Beach reported that...
...Parcel Post. A bill to set up an air parcel post system was passed by the Senate. It provides for parcels up to 70 pounds to be airmailed anywhere within the U.S., at 55? to 80? a pound, depending on the distance. The House is expected to pass the bill before adjournment, thus giving scheduled airlines a much needed boost in business...
...daily routine. Keith and Rex, who had refused to get up for breakfast, stayed in the house, while the others walked down the lane, amid spring blossoms and green shrubs, on their way to work. They met the postwoman, who said: "Nothing much for you this morning. Just a parcel." Said Mrs. Farran: "One of the boys will take...
...took the parcel and carried it into the living room. It was addressed to Roy, but he opened it. It contained a volume of Shakespeare. Rex probably never saw it, for it exploded as he undid it, tearing open his stomach and maiming his hands. As Rex lay dying in the hospital later, he asked: "Am I dying like a Farran?" His last words were: "No revenge...