Word: stone
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Coconut Planter Rufino Flores Velez was riding along a Mexican trail near the isolated village of Rio Grande in the southwest corner of Oaxaca state. When his horse kicked the corner of a stone sticking out of the dust, he hopped off, investigated, and gathered a gang of peasants to dig up the stone. It weighed about three tons, but at last the peasants managed to turn it over. The underside was covered with elaborate carvings that looked to non-archeological eyes like a man and woman embracing...
...Toad. Flores duly reported his find, but nothing was done until two novice archeologists, Robin Mills and Morgan Smith of Florida, heard about it in Oaxaca City. By airplane, jeep and saddle horse, Mills and Smith worked their way to roadless Rio Grande, where proud villagers showed them the stone. Part of the stone was covered with hieroglyphics, and five square miles of ground around it was full of exciting traces of an ancient civilization...
...Mayor Adalberto Cuevas, the young archeologists tramped through a jungle full of screaming parrots to a steep slope called Cerro del Sapo (Toad Hill). Overlooking the blue Pacific was a second slab with two Picasso-like figures carved on it. Locally called Los Reyes (The Kings), the stone is still revered as a miracle-working idol. The people of the vicinity make pilgrimages to it to pray for rain, and the carvings show traces of wax from their votive candles. Near it is another carved stone, badly eroded, whose local name is "The Queen...
When, in 1948, the time came to fill the newly created Zemurry-Stone Chair, the occupant had to be picked with especial care for she (the grant specified a female) would be the first woman professor in Harvard's history. The lady chosen had to be both outstanding in her field and vigorous enough to make her way in a strictly masculine universe. In both ways the choice of Helen Maud Cam was singularly fortunate, for besides being a ranking medieval historian, Miss Cam, in her late sixties, has more of an intellectual bounce and a livelier guffaw than most...
Bill Wister, fifth, won 15-10, 15-14, 10-15, 15-13. Paul Garrigue, seventh, won 15-12, 17-14, 15-18, 15-5. Guy Paschal, scheduled to play in the eighth position, was suffering from a sore shoulder, so Coach Jack Barnaby moved Al Stone up from ninth and Stone won 15-7, 12-15, 15-6, 11-15, 15-10. Alternate Bob Brown played in the ninth spot...