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With some 25,000 flint and bone objects taken one by one from this ancient camp site in a farmyard of modern France, the scientists are beginning to piece together a way of life without parallel today. The precision and attention to detail that mark modern archaeological detective work is the key for the group led by Hallam Movius, professor of Anthropology...
Since then, the archaeologists have dug out and recorded thousands of flint tools, bone knives, stones, antlers, shells, beads, awis and other clues with which they are recreating the world of the Stone Age hunters. Much is known but many questions may never be answered. One of the chief difficulties is that many of the flint tools and other objects, though man-made, served an unknown function. Moreover, organic material, such as reindeer skins and wood, is gone. This is preserved only under unusual circumstances--for example, if it happened to have been buried at the bottom of a lake...
...record the total experience: This drives him to include, first, accounts of other students and teachers, then of their families and friends, then of their past and future lives. Next, the compulsive Vernier must procure the manuals and textbooks for all the courses these students are taking, to bone up on them and to include parts of them in his chronicle. Hence at least half of Degrees is taken up with quotations from textbooks, classroom recitation, synopses of lectures, transcripts of homework, including mathematical problems complete with errors and corrections...
Despite the bone-wearying sameness of all the picturesque festivities laid out for them, both the Queen and Prince Philip maintained their poise and ready sense of humor, provided more than a million West Africans with a new view of the erstwhile "imperialist oppressors." Said Prime Minister Macmillan in the House of Commons, moving a "loyal address to the throne": "I venture to say that of the many journeys which she and His Royal Highness have so tirelessly undertaken, none has been crowned with greater success than this...
...barber without a job; so Barber William D. was desperate when his hands-particularly his overworked right hand-became crippled by arthritis. Last week William D., 52, could again hold his scissors, and was working on a light schedule in an Iowa city. In place of the diseased bone in the middle joints of his right fingers were stainless steel hinges...