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...South Africa (TIME, Jan. 17). As the Makapan River cut its valley during a million years, it formed a series of limestone caves that were inhabited successively by all manner of men and beasts. In some of the lowest layers, C. K. Brain of the Transvaal Museum found smallish stones that had been chipped into crude tools. Geological studies hinted that this primitive "pebble culture" might date from as much as 750,000 years...
Most likely candidate as proprietor of the pebble culture was Australopithecus prometheus, a smallish, erect-walking creature whose brain was just big enough to equip him intellectually as a maker of tools. Prometheus was plentiful in the Makapan region, but his remains had never been found with pebble tools...
Weather Lesson. The smallish hurricane that hit Freeport, Texas in 1949 taught them a startling lesson. The great waves rode higher than anyone dreamed they could. They twisted and smashed the steelwork of the sea rigs, and tossed heavy machines around as if they were wooden mockups...
...living room is warm and friendly. On one side an attractive gray-haired woman is sitting in front of a tea service. Opposite her sits a smallish, bespectacled man, his legs crossed, a dark, unlit pipe in his hand. Grouped in a circle with them are two Nieman Fellows, a Pulitzer Prize winner, a Classics professor, two visitors from a small school in Appleton, Wisconsin, an itinerant Dutchman, and a teaching fellow in History. The tone of the conversation is serious, the expressions of the participants intent. They are discussing the situation facing L'il Abner and Daisy...
...Thomas does not propose to shoot a missile directly at the satellite. A hit would be unlikely. Instead, he thinks, the attacking power should shoot a smallish rocket into the satellite's orbit, but in the opposite direction. The rocket (estimated cost: $1,000,000) would be launched when the satellite was on the far side of the earth. When still a quarter revolution (7,792 miles) away from the approaching satellite, its warhead would burst...