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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Figurines & Child. Two thousand years later (about the time of Julius Caesar) a more sophisticated culture flourished in Little Hell Canyon. Corncobs were more numerous, and pods of beans, the second staple of Mexican diet, lay in the dust among them. Fragments of grinding stones suggest that the corn was ground into meal. The people had learned to make pottery, and their artistic or religious impulses led them to manufacture small clay figurines...
...crackling curves, France's narrow Rheims course, where a quarter-of-a-million fans congregate, and England's Silverstone and Goodwood courses, where the crowds reach 125,000. Italy has its closed course at Monza and the wide-open public road race of the Mille Miglia, the thousand-miler up and over the Apennines from Brescia to Rome and back, which is watched every July by a million cheering fans...
...School Admission test is one of sixteen test programs administered by the Educational, Testing Service. These range in scope from the preliminary Actuarial Examination given each May to a little over a thousand candidates to the College Boards which last year tested over 140,000 candidates...
...celebrate the rediscovery of Caravaggio's Ecce Homo, Genoa borrowed Cigoli's version from Florence and displayed the two together. Visitors thronging the gallery at the rate of a thousand a day, agreed with Expert Roberto Longhi that Caravaggio's version is one of his "most moving works," and much superior to Cigoli's canvas. Caravaggio had at last won the competition he lost to his rival Cigoli 3½ centuries...
Paris had no answer for West Germany's question. Instead, French politicians last week seemed determined to let EDC die the death of a thousand delays...