Word: stoning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Thoughts on Stone...
...first-day visitors tried to descend on the U.S. and Russian pavilions. (In the crush, a Belgian guard at the U.S. pavilion was pushed through a plate-glass window, hospitalized.) Both pavilions got mixed notices. There was almost universal agreement that in architectural beauty Edward Stone's circular U.S. pavilion of steel and gold aluminum (TIME, March 31) surpassed Russia's rectangle of frosted glass and steel, though the Soviet building was an improvement on Russia's usual grim monoliths. Those who think that fairs should be fun preferred the U.S. exhibit...
...shaggy men of the Old Stone Age had their industrial centers too, and one of them was in central Tanganyika, Africa. Last week Anthropologist F. Clark Howell of the University of Chicago told about extracting thousands of stone tools from what was once a lake bed in the Southern Highlands. The site was discovered in 1951 by a Johannesburg school principal, but not much was done about it until last summer when Dr. Howell arrived with a small expedition (his wife and two graduate students) and hired 35 natives at $1.50 a week...
...altitude a gully 60 ft. deep had cut through alternating layers of sandstone and clay. The clay was barren but the sandstone was stuffed with stone tools. Five thousand square feet of the highest sandstone layer yielded 117 stone cleavers, 157 axes, 48 scrapers, hundreds of other tools and weapons. In the three highest sandstone layers, the tools were all made of mylonite, a fine-grained igneous rock; the fourth layer contained tools of quartz, and among them were bones of strange animals: a giant hippopotamus, pigs 6 ft. tall, and a short-necked giraffe-like creature with antlers...
...England the masterwork of Stone Age men is getting long-needed maintenance, using the most modern methods. In spite of clamor from indignant traditionalists, Britain's Ministry of Works intends to reerect one of the massive trilithons (three-stone arches) of prehistoric Stonehenge on Salisbury Plain. It fell in 1797 after staying upright for perhaps 3,000 years, and there are accurate drawings that show it unfallen. The ministry will not reerect other trilithons that fell in Roman times or earlier, but it sees nothing false about restoring Stonehenge to its 18th century condition...