Word: rocke
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...mountaintop heard cries for help and called the detective. With only damp towels as protection against the sulphur fumes, Detective Tomosaburo Suzuki and seven police volunteers began the rescue. Roped together, choking and almost blinded by the fumes, they let themselves down some 600 feet to an outcropping of rock on the very edge of the crater. The rock had broken the young couple's fall. There, covered with blood and bruises, her ankle smashed, but still unromantically alive, lay the little waitress Setsumi. Beside her, uninjured, was her impulsive lover...
Professor Dart's new finds came from a cave whose mouth is now 160 ft. above the Makapan River in the Transvaal. The cave's original floor is travertine rock, on which lies more than 50 ft. of sedimentary material. In one of the layers, close to the floor, are bones of Australopithecus prometheus, a small, spry primate whom Professor Dart considers at least semi-human. Prometheus, he says, ate baboons, may have stood upright and may have possessed fire. On the other hand, apparently, he did not know how to make stone tools or weapons...
...Black Rock (MGM) starts Metro off on the New Year with its best footage forward. It is a tight film, told in quiet words and simple pictures that give it an uncommon quality of economy...
...Rock Island Refining Corp. opened an automated refinery at Indianapolis in which machines made the necessary adjustments in temperature, pressure, etc. to keep the plant running properly...
...insurance executive believes that the major hindrance to changing rates is simply inertia. Said he: "There was a feeling in the business that things were going along pretty good as they were, that a change would give rise to a whole new series of problems and why rock the boat?" For the nation's 93 million policyholders (who have $339 billion in life insurance in force), rocking the boat with the special policies means a wave of healthy competition in the industry...