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Ordinarily, the avid move-goer would have to go to Washington Street in Boston to catch films like Thar She Blows and The Lustful Turk, but Peter A. Jaszi, titles producer for the theatre, said yesterday that these movies belong in Cambridge...
...East Africa, the short (just over 4 ft.), heavy-jawed man ape, Australopithecus, stood erect, eating meat as well as fruits and vegetables and was probably the first creature to make and use tools of stone.* Until recently, most paleontologists were certain that Australopithecus lived no more thar 2,000,000 years ago-or at least 6,000, 000 years after Rama. The Yalemen's discovery thus creates a huge gap in man's history between Australopithecus and Rama...
...rest of the cast is, well, from England. Hopefully they had the foresight to buy excursion-fare plane tickets, because, to use the play's own idiom, thar' ain't no gold in these here hills...
There used to be lots of gold in them thar hulls. Over the centuries, Spain exacted an estimated $8 billion in tribute from its New World colonies, and probably $1 billion of that was hijacked by pirates on the high seas or sank beneath the waves during storms. These lost riches still haunt the imagination, and to addicts no space-age adventure is as exciting as the search for sunken treasure. Exciting and occasionally profitable. An engrossing sampling of one briny trove, the salvage of an armada wrecked in the 18th century off Florida, was put up for auction last...
Sure, Cat Ballon was funnier. But these days, a customer is lucky to find brass in them thar hills...