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James Moriarty, a University of San Diego marine archaeologist, identifies it as a so-called messenger stone, probably of ancient Chinese origin. Such a stone could be sent sliding down an anchor chain, via the hole, to strip away accumulations of seaweed. Another stony relic, discov ered five years ago off Los Angeles by two sports divers, Wayne Baldwin and Robert Miestrell, also hints at an early Chinese presence. To Moriarty and his assistant, Archaeologist Larry Pierson, it looks very much like the type of mill stone known to have been used by Chinese sailors as anchors...
...idea of exercise consists only of getting up to turn on the television set to watch the Wide World of Sports. Bearing price tags that range up to $69, the new breed of cushioned rubber athletic shoe has trampled that familiar and often smelly old relic, the sneaker...
...barber poles comes into his shop in St. Paul for repairs, he sends it back electrified. Marvy, 70, has been in the business for 55 years, and he has been up to date every step of the way. This up-to-dateness is itself a kind of spring-wound relic: the breezy, bet-on-the-future confidence of a Midwestern traveling salesman from a half-century...
...drought, while inflation has expanded dangerously. Even countries that have adapted best to recent economic problems, notably West Germany and Japan, suffer inflation or slow growth. The world money system that functioned like a Swiss watch for a quarter-century has been sending off alarms. Gold, the barbarous relic that Shakespeare called the "common whore of mankind," has become the refuge for a world fearful of returning to an economic jungle...
While Morning's at Seven, now at the Lyceum Theater, first appeared on Broadway in 1939, it is not a relic from the crowded attic of nostalgia. Playwright Osborn, now 78, perceived a world with the family as its center of gravity and the blood tie as life's enduring nourishment...