Word: siefker
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Dates: during 1961-1961
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Like many another kid in West New York, N. J., Alfred Siefker, 17, wears a longish haircut, low-slung pegged trousers and a cigarette dangling from the corner of his mouth. The style suggests the drugstore cowboy, but under the disguise Alfred practices a different skill. He is already a dedicated scientist who has just rewritten a chapter of paleontology...
Last week at Manhattan's famed American Museum of Natural History. Alfred and two friends-Joseph Geiler, 16. and Michael Bandrowski, 16-exhibited the fossil of a winged reptile, oldest airborne vertebrate known to man. Siefker's protorosaur, said Dr. Edwin H. Colbert, head of the museum's department of vertebrate paleontology, "proves that vertebrates attempted flight some 10 million years earlier than anyone suspected...
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