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Another exhibit shows bark cloth (tapa). The Pacific islanders made it by pounding the fibrous inner bark of certain trees. So did Indians in Nicaragua and Mexico. The cloth of both hemispheres is the same papery stuff, and the wood and stone pounding tools the two peoples used (shown in the exhibit) are so similar that they might have been made by the same...
Hooks & Cloths. The stuff ranged from fishhooks to architecture, and each New World exhibit has its Asiatic counterpart. In most of Oceania, for instance, the natives used two kinds of fishhook: a barbed, composite gadget made of shell and stone lashed together and a nearly circular barbless hook carved out of bone or shell in one piece. Almost identical hooks of both types have been found together on the northern coast of Chile. Dr. Ekholm believes that patterns so characteristic and so similar could not have been developed independently...
...year-olds was Guy Hawkins, who had been in the first grade for eight years. One evening, when Teacher Stuart was working late at the school, Guy came back. "I aim to whip you," he said. "It's the same place where I whipped your sister." The two men fought, but this time it was Guy who took the beating...
About 40% of the presidents had once worked at something besides education. The University of Kansas picked a vice president of the Hawaiian Pineapple Co.; Iowa chose a Chicago lawyer. There were a physician, a dirt farmer, two journalists, a rear admiral and a former state governor...
What started the onion boom was a Government forecast of a short crop-27.2 million sacks v. 31.6 million last year-and a trader's hunch that the Govrnment forecast was too high. As he started to buy, traders who were caught napping two years ago when a short crop swept the price up from $3.80 to $6.50 jumped...