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...Ringed City. The U.S. find was at Poverty Point, now on Louisiana's sluggish Bayou Macon. The site has been recognized as man-made for 50 years, but its real character escaped appreciation until Professor Ford got air photos from Army engineers. By 500 B.C., says Ford in Natural History, thousands of Indians or pre-Indians were living at Poverty Point in a carefully laid-out city. They honored their gods by building enormous temple mounds vaguely in the shape of a bird. Six concentric octagons of different-colored soil showed up on the air photos; on closer examination...
...football team this season has been one big disappointment as far as the Harvard fan is concerned. It started its schedule by crushing UMass, 60-6, but with the exception of the Columbia victory in New York, it has been very sluggish on both offense and defense...
...Crimson did not play its best ball, and for a long time in the second and third periods the losers were walking up to the ball instead of running in and giving it a hard kick. During this time they were also sluggish in following the ball downfield and missed several scoring chances...
Cumbersome and sluggish in its early years, Diesel's engine did not seriously challenge steam until General Motors in Z933 produced the first modern, lightweight diesel. It took World War II to ignite the real development of diesel power. G.M. turned out diesel trucks, tractors, power plants and locomotives by the thousands, provided the U.S. Navy with more diesel power than the entire horsepower of the prewar fleet. Since the war. the diesel has completed its conquest of U.S. railroads. Diesel locomotives now haul 86% of all rail passengers, 84% of all freight, save the railroads $600 million...
...same smooth-stroking University of Pennsylvania crew that put an end to Navy's three-year winning streak (TIME, May 16) proved that its Adams Cup victory was no fluke. On the sluggish tidewater of the Potomac, at Washington, the Quakers took the Eastern heavyweight sprint championship by finishing the 2,000-meter race i^ lengths ahead of Cornell. In last place, behind Penn, Cornell, Columbia, Yale and Princeton...