Word: stones
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...General of the Army Douglas MacArthur, 83, memories came flooding back when the Philippine government presented him with a 30-lb. chunk of reddish granite. The stone was cut from the mouth of Corregidor's Malinta Tunnel, where in 1942 U.S. and Philippine troops held out for four months against Japanese forces. Said MacArthur, his eyes misty as he touched the souvenir: "Corregidor-a wartime rock -but in it, it holds the symbol of the honor of two great nations...
...Frans Blom, 69, Danish explorer and archaeologist who went to Mexico in 1922, was so intrigued by the ruins of the ancient Mayas and by their nearly extinct descendants that he settled near the Guatemalan border, authored works on the Mayas (Tribes and Temples), raised two children from a Stone Age tribe in his home, training them in the ways of modern man so they could return as teachers to their people; of pneumonia; in San Cristobal, Chiapas, Mexico...
...Sullivan Show (CBS, 8-9:30 p.m.). An extra half hour has been added this week to celebrate the 15th anniversary of TV's own Great Stone Face with highlights from past shows...
...cultural capstone of his administration. With a $1,320,000 grant from the government, Jorge Acosta, one of Mexico's top archaeologists, enlisted 550 laborers to start the picks and shovels working. Behind the diggers came a task force of 37 archaeologists and restorers, carefully gathering everything from stone dartheads to obsidian razor blades. By last week, after the months of excavation, even the most optimistic archaeologists realized that they had vastly underestimated the true size and scope of Teotihuacán. Said Acosta: "This is by far the biggest, most wonderful city of pre-Conquest America...
Despite the stone walls, the team emerged with a picture of a Russia that might be nearing "the stage of eventual breakthrough to a tolerably affluent urban society" but that is still addicted to production and marketing methods that are "economically screwy." Some day the West might find it a "cosier" country to live with, said the Economist. But for the present, "this is a country where free thinking is still a very timorous beastie...