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Hill of the Toad. Flores duly reported his find, but nothing was done until two novice archeologists, Robin Mills and Morgan Smith of Florida, heard about it in Oaxaca City. By airplane, jeep and saddle horse, Mills and Smith worked their way to roadless Rio Grande, where proud villagers showed them the stone. Part of the stone was covered with hieroglyphics, and five square miles of ground around it was full of exciting traces of an ancient civilization...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Diggers | 3/8/1954 | See Source »

...emphasizing the fundamentals of amateur athletics, the Ivy League formally agreed yesterday that its eight member colleges would play a round-robin football schedule, and asserted that the principles of round-robin scheduling would be extended to as many sports as "practicable." The football league will probably start...

Author: By Steven C. Swett, | Title: Presidents Formally Accept New 'Ivy Group' Agreement | 2/11/1954 | See Source »

...addition to expanding the principles of round-robin competition, the new league affirmed its ban on spring football practice and athletic scholarship, thereby substantially keeping intact an informal president's pact drawn up in 1945 to prevent commercialization in Ivy college athletics...

Author: By Steven C. Swett, | Title: Presidents Formally Accept New 'Ivy Group' Agreement | 2/11/1954 | See Source »

...round-robin football season will probably not begin until 1956, since plans for 1954 and, for the most part, for 1955 have already been drawn up. A new section of the agreement specifies that schedules in sports other than football shall not be made prior to December of the proceeding academic year...

Author: By Steven C. Swett, | Title: Presidents Formally Accept New 'Ivy Group' Agreement | 2/11/1954 | See Source »

...principals in Rob Roy, Actor Todd and Actress Johns, are the same Disney used in The Sword and the Rose-Todd was in Robin Hood too-and they play the man and maid with a pleasant innocence and archaic grace. Actors Gough and Justice, also in the previous pictures, are admirable swashbucklers both. The local types are nicely interpolated-a red-cheeked Gaelic extra makes such a vivid vernacular dither with a Highland air that she steals a big scene from the lovers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Feb. 8, 1954 | 2/8/1954 | See Source »

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