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...kilometers deep, walls of strata lie exposed, many-layered sandwiches of volcanic ash and ancient sediments containing the remains of complete prehistoric environments. Organizing a team of fossil hunters, Leakey established a base camp at Koobi Fora, a mound at the inboard end of a long, crocodile-infested sand spit that curves out into the lake. Then he began following his nose?with remarkable success. Turkana has yielded the richest accumulation of remnants of man and his predecessors ever found in one area...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Puzzling Out Man's Ascent | 11/7/1977 | See Source »

...before the inmates because a child molester had attacked his daughter. The insertion of this twist in the personality of Davis provides the dramatic device so badly needed in this plot. Longshoe suddenly pulls out of his self-assumed brother's keeper role, planting a well-aimed globule of spit on Davis's face, and he joins the blacks and Hispanics in systematically tormenting Davis. Dubbed "Short Eyes" for his crime, Davis swiftly sinks to the status of an outcast among society's outcasts; his fate now effectively sealed, you only await the execution of the witchhunt ritual against...

Author: By Joe Contreras, | Title: Honor Among Thieves | 10/29/1977 | See Source »

Crosby was for many years a member of Cypress Point, which was designed by Alister Mackenzie, the same architect who mapped out Augusta National. Situated on a spit of land at the base of the Santa Lucia foothills and pounded by the Pacific on all sides, Cypress Point is perhaps the most breathtaking course ever built. O.B. Keeler, the biographer of Bobby Jones, wrote that the Monterey cypress that line the fairways appeared to him as "the crystallization of the dream of an artist who had been drinking gin and sobering up on absinthe...

Author: By Robert Sidorsky, | Title: From `King of Jazz' to King of Golf | 10/21/1977 | See Source »

...accused Glassman of being a "demon" and a "wicked person," who (like "Sam") was forcing the writer to kill. Said one letter: "My master Craig, You will be punished. Craig, how dare you force me into the night to do your bidding. I promise you, Craig, the world shall spit on you and your mother ... Sure, I am the killer, but Craig, the killings are at your command." On the same day that he received two of the letters (Aug. 6), Glassman was startled to find a fire burning outside his apartment door. When firemen put it out, they found...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Sam Told Me To Do It... Sam Is the Devil | 8/22/1977 | See Source »

When it comes to celebrations, folks in Spartanburg, S.C., do not limit themselves to just the usual American holidays. Last week, for instance, a few days after the Fourth of July, they all turned out for Bastille Day. French Consul Jacqueline Dietrich borrowed a spit from a German neighbor, ordered supplies from Franz Kastner's gourmet delicatessen (Perrier water, lox and asparagus), invited the Swiss consul and representatives from Spartanburg's 40 European companies to celebration and song. Rudolf Mueller, manager of Menzel, Inc., a German-owned plant that makes textile machinery, was not there this time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Oompah in the Bible Belt | 7/25/1977 | See Source »

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