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...smoke, but half a dozen other technicians, some wearing face masks and asbestos gloves, raced to help. One or two would try to wrench open the hatch, then fall back from the scorching heat while others struggled with it. Six minutes after the cry of alarm, the hatch sprang open. A blast of hot air shot out, followed by suffocating clouds of smoke...
Anthropologists agree that the family of man and the family of apes sprang from a common ancestor. But they have never been able to agree on the time at which man and apes began to take separate paths. As recently as World War II, it was believed that manlike creatures began to evolve five or six million years ago. In the years after the war, the discovery and dating of skeletal remains pushed the existence of man's direct ancestors back to 10 million and then to 14 million years. Now famed Kenya-born Anthropologist Louis Leakey has evidence...
...employees in 27 foreign countries had never worn shoes or used a knife and fork until the hotel began training them. Few early guests of the Beirut Phoenicia will forget the experience. Maids burst into occupied guest rooms to plug in vacuums to clean the halls. Water pipes sprang torrential leaks, turning lobby light fixtures into overhead fountains and drenching clothes stowed in bedrooms. Such difficulties were overcome, and Pan Am flew in 900 travel agents from all over Western Europe and the U.S. for a free look at the Phoenicia. Soon their clients filled it close to capacity...
Outwardly, the word from Michigan's George Romney on the 1968 Republican presidential nomination has not changed in recent weeks: "I want to take a long, hard look before deciding." Even as Romney-for-President clubs sprang up in Utah, Texas and Michigan, Romney insisted publicly that he was preparing only for his gubernatorial inauguration this week, and that he will wait six months before he tells a breathless world whether or not he will...
...doubters -- concerned with the substance of the report rather than the emotional relief it provided -- persisted. Articles and books challenging the Commission's findings sprang up everywhere. A few of them, notably Edward Jay Epstein's Inquest and Mark Lane's Rush to Judgment, raised serious doubts about not only the facts of the assassination, but also the procedures and pressures under which the Commission operated...