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Most striking example shown last week was the Carreta de la Muerte-a "death cart" (see cut) in which a grinning skeleton with elongated wooden limbs sits upright with a bow & arrow poised for shooting. The cart was used in the Holy Week ceremonies of the Penitentes, a sect of zealots who flagellated and crucified themselves and each other, and which, although modified in ceremony, still exists in remote regions of New Mexico...
Presentation of the plan's skeleton in pamphlet form marked Step No. 3 in Ely Culbertson's systematic campaign. First he submitted the plan to several scores of notables in all walks of life, got almost unanimous approval, at least of principle. Second, he published a succinct outline in last February's Reader's Digest. Step No. 4 will be the appearance in June of a weighty volume called Total Peace, which will present the plan in fullest detail...
...whole new family of plastics is based on the element silicon, rather than the element carbon which provides the chemical skeleton for the majority. These "silicones" are the result of research by Corning Glass Works (glass might be called a silicon plastic) and engineering by Dow Chemical Co. First uses, undoubtedly military, have not been disclosed. The silicones, solid or liquid, have one extraordinary property: an ability to stand extreme temperatures characteristic of their silicon parentage...
Ranking with these in interest are graves. Here again the amateur can do irreparable damage: "The successful removal of a skeleton often calls for unusual skill and an inordinate expenditure of time and patience. In damp ground bones may be so soft as to defy movement until hardened by drying or by special treatment with fixing solutions. An inexperienced digger may tear away a skeleton without being aware of its presence. Since the teeth are less likely to take on the color of the damp soil, a bungling amateur may report that he found no bones, merely a few teeth...
Just plain hard luck defeated the Crimson sextet in their contest with St. Paul's. The loss snapped the Jayvees' six game winning streak and gave the prepsters a clean sweep over all of the Big Three sextets. Hard hit by the manpower shortage, Harvard's skeleton squad fought their opponents to a standstill, but were overcome by fluke shots that somehow found their way into the net. St. Paul's well-balanced sextet built up an early 2-1 lead and held their ratio of superiority throughout...