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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Over Düsseldorf last week, a dark, beetle-browed young man leaned from the window of a low-flying Cessna and shoveled out handbills by the thousand. "Everything moves. Nothing stands still," they proclaimed. "Stop building cathedrals and pyramids which crumble like lumps of sugar! Stop resisting changeability! Be free! Live!" In the streets below, one man picked up a copy, read it, then shook his fist at the plane. Artist Jean Tinguely, 33, was delighted. "Some will say, 'very good.' Others will object. The overall result will be just what I wanted: total confusion...
...idea is to spring a thousand-ton platform into position by means of many small atomic explosions...
...take their wives out for an evening. Their usual excuse is that their employers, for business reasons, insist that they attend numerous geisha parties, where much of the nation's business is still transacted. In the geisha houses, the jokes and sake drinking have not changed in a thousand years. Tipsy politicians and businessmen play such children's games as "scissors, paper, rock" or the passing of lighted tapers until they go out, to determine who must drink penalty cups of sake. When not being pinched or fondled by male guests, the modern geisha sings, plays the samisen...
Another result of the expedition last summer was the finding of a 21 thousand year old skull--the only specimen which bridges the gap between 19 and 22 thousand years...
...group will continue the work of a similar expedition which last summer uncovered two "occupation levels" of Stone Age hunters who inhabited the region 20 and 22 thousand years ago respectively, Movius estimates that it will take five or six more summers to reach the base of the remaining 30 feet of successive occupations...