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...mysterious stones, but they doggedly followed the pudding stone trail across eastern England. At last it took them to Grime's Graves in Norfolk, a dark, fir-grown hollow where Stone Age man from earliest times dug flint with staghorn picks. Norfolk country people shun the spot, and call it "the evil place." But for the Rudges, it was the payoff...
...Stanley Sayres and his Slo-Mo-Shun IV, the world hydroplane speed record, averaging 178.497 m.p.h. (18 m.p.h. faster than their own previous record) in two one-mile runs (one with the wind, one against it); on Seattle's Lake Washington...
...scholarly type will have no reason to shun Dunster. With its close student faculty relations, Dunsted has a powerful intellectual atmosphere. The library was at last count second only to Lowell...
...newly published 30-page report (not yet translated into English) contained none of the expected wizardry. It urged: welcome foreign capital; cut down controls which discourage foreign trade; shun elaborate social welfare schemes; decentralize factories, to avoid building a citified, slum-dwelling proletariat. Said a Western businessman: "Did they have to send Schacht here to find all this out?" Indonesia's Finance Minister snapped that he agreed with none of the Schacht report except that "Indonesia has a great future...
...Puritans Shun Christmas...