Word: stones
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Shakespeare, how much kinder author You had been Had you but written me a role called Kean. But instead of the Bard, Drake has been given a Stone...
...chemical action of chlorophyll, on which all life on earth ultimately depends, is fairly well understood, but humans cannot yet duplicate the process in the laboratory. Trying to copy this elegant chemical factory with man's present techniques would be like trying to make a modern watch with Stone Age tools...
Improbable though his story seems, a Stone Age man, practically untouched by modern civilization, was alive in the U.S. only 50 years ago. When he stumbled out of the brush near Oroville in northern California one August morning in 1911, he was naked except for a scrap of canvas thrown over his shoulders. Weak and emaciated, he spoke not a word of English or any other known language. It was days before anyone could communicate with him and learn who he was. Now, half a century later, a new book, Ishi in Two Worlds, by Historian Theodora Kroeber (University...
...tangled foothills of volcanic Lassen Peak, high in the Cascade Range. Early Spanish and Mexican settlers had little contact with the Yahi, but the gold seekers who flooded California in the 1850s hunted them down like wild animals. The Yahi had no guns; they fought their pathetic best with stone-tipped spears and arrows, but by 1872 they were believed extinct. A dozen years later, ranchers in the foothills began to miss occasional calves and sheep, and sometimes caches of food were pilfered from mountain cabins. Rumors spread that Yahi were still hiding in the hills, but when the pilfering...
...Succeed in Business Without Really Trying is a bright musicomedy spoof of corporate wheels and wiles, and its up-from-window-washer hero, Robert Morse, is a superlative comic wonder who could coax laughs out of Mount Rushmore's stone faces...