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...Radioactive fallout from the Nevada tests has not been serious, but senseless fallout jitters are getting more so. Last week an Oakland, Calif, householder reported his lawn covered with radioactive ash. Civil-defense technicians came running, found the "ash'' to be a yellow film of acacia pollen...
...discovery of the 60,000 year-old pollen last year was the final evidence the scientists needed to prove that corn originated in this hemisphere...
Discovery of fossilized grains of 60,000 year old corn pollen 200 feet beneath Mexico City last year has definitely established that corn is a native of the Western Hemisphere and did not originate in Asia, four University botanists announced Saturday...
...Mexico City corn pollen fossils were found in drill cores studied by Dr. Paul Sears of Yale and Mrs. Kathryn Clisby of Oberlin College. The Bat Cave corn was found by Herbert Dick, then of Colorado State Museum...
Many of the old estates had been taken over by 20th Century squires whose bank balances outran their pedigrees. Alongside such ancient names as Wolley-Dod of Edge, Willock-Pollen of Little Bookham, Polwhele of Polwhele and MacLachlan of MacLachlan, Landed Gentry now lists Martins, Bartons and Fishers. It even mentions 700 people in the U.S., including Cinemactress Joan Fontaine and the International Harvester McCormicks of Chicago...