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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Though Russian scientists did not reach the site until 1927, they found extraordinary devastation even then over about 62 sq. mi. Yet the several craters are among the smallest known: 30 ft. to 150 ft. wide, only 12 ft. deep. The first visitors found no meteorite fragments to a depth of 30 ft. Another expedition tried again for 13 months in 1930-31, found only minute grains of nickel-iron under one crater...
Negotiations for a site for the mosque are incomplete, according to Nasr, but the Society hopes to purchase land in the near future. Nasr said last night that a lot was selected some time ago, but that arrangements to buy it could not be made. It is rumored that the site under present consideration is opposite Memorial Hall, on Quincy...
...Society hopes to build a mosque large enough to serve the needs of the large Islamic population in the area. Although plans for the building depend upon the purchase of a site, the building may include a library of religious works...
...Stone Age had their industrial centers too, and one of them was in central Tanganyika, Africa. Last week Anthropologist F. Clark Howell of the University of Chicago told about extracting thousands of stone tools from what was once a lake bed in the Southern Highlands. The site was discovered in 1951 by a Johannesburg school principal, but not much was done about it until last summer when Dr. Howell arrived with a small expedition (his wife and two graduate students) and hired 35 natives at $1.50 a week...
...while O'Malley rounded up cash, the Sports Authority died on second. The Authority was not given enough money to do more than study its problems. As the Long Island Rail Road site faded into improbability, politicians began suggesting other places, but none of them were pleasing. "One," says O'Malley, "was between a cemetery and a large body of water. I pointed out that we weren't likely to get many customers from either place." With $5,000,000 in his pocket and no place to spend it, with only a short-term lease on Ebbets...