Word: stoning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Slave Dance. The life dedicated to the task of being a paragon of fashion for American women began 38 years ago, far from the U.S. and far from fashion. Lisa was born in the small Swedish town of Uddevalla (present pop. 22,675), the daughter of Dr. Samuel Bern-stone, a dentist. Lisa's father had changed his name from Anderson, which he considered too commonplace: there are 48 pages of Andersons in the Stockholm telephone directory. The Bernstones were always considered a little daring by the town: they liked to go swimming in the nude. Lisa still likes...
...much is known about Yuma Man, for no Yuma skeleton has yet been found. He may or may not have been an ancestor of modern Indians. He made beautiful and characteristic stone weapons, and seems to have lived not long after the glacial period. But no one knows what his clothes or shelters were like. He was certainly no stickler for public sanitation. Jumbled together on 625 square feet of ground were bones of more than 40 buffalo. Among them were fire sites and stone chips flaked off in making new weapons. Apparently Yuma Man, unmindful of smells and flies...
...ghostlike, empty village of Vronderon, near the Albanian border, one Lazanis Nestoridis, a private in the government army, pinned up a penciled notice on the front door of a two-story stone house. It read: "Friends, please do not remove the few remaining articles from this house. It's mine. I'm a soldier." Vronderon was Lazanis' home, which he had not seen in four years. The house was all he had left: his wife and children had been carried off by the retreating guerrillas. Lazanis told a visiting U.N. Balkans Commission team that 'his family...
...Aldrich Family. Ezra Stone has long been radio's Henry Aldrich, a callow, voice-cracking adolescent. Since Stone (a master sergeant in World War II) is now fat, 32 and balding, he says: "On TV it will have to be a different show, with a new Henry. Our radio technique of abrupt sequences and staccato action will change to quieter, more restrained comedy...
...Stone Unturned. In Zanesville, Ohio, when Patrolman Dick Tracy set out to check on the story of a motorist who had driven through a guard rail, down a 20-ft. slope and into a stream, Tracy's brakes failed and he ended up in the same stream...