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After hundreds of thousands of years of this, the climate grew drier. Tanganyika's lowlands turned arid. The upland lake shrank, but it did not disappear. Up from the hungry plains trooped the animals, and soon ancient men moved in with them. For centuries they lived on the beaches, chipped their razor-sharp weapons and fed on the animals. When the rains came again, animals and men trooped back to the plains. This alternation seems to have happened four times; then the lake went dry. The shaggy men, the giant hippos, the giant pigs and the antlered giraffes abandoned...
...cars in the future? Says Researcher Cheskin: "The sober look, the dignified form, the basically functional gadget, the single color or truly two-tone color. Useless gadgets do not appeal to the 1958 shoppers and will appeal to the 1959 and 1960 shoppers even less. The jukebox effect will disappear. Elaborate ornamentation of chrome and multiple colors will be discarded. Finally, consumers are also beginning to resent forced obsolescence. When yearly fashions were limited to women's apparel, there was almost universal acceptance. The public did not resist the yearly car design changes. Then other hard-goods makers began...
...discuss the material at hand on a man to man basis. They agree--in theory--that a grade or a written comment is an unsatisfying substitute for the give and take of a first hand discussion and explanation. But somehow or other, the theory as well as the professor disappear every year at this time--professors have an annoying habit of going incommunicado both before and after they have graded senior honors theses...
...been generally taken for granted that the carbon monoxide in the air would disappear when diesel engines were replaced with atomic reactors, said Dr. Dobbins. Not so; the monoxide danger has become worse. Reason: while the diesel sub had to have fresh outside air blown through on an average of every twelve hours, the atomic sub uses its original quota of air as long as it stays down. And that air is fouled by crew members' smoking, which in time can produce a higher monoxide level than did the old diesels. Both carbon monoxide and carbon dioxide must...
Born Apostle. Zarur was a successful radio scripter when, in 1949, he sat in his usual café and suddenly saw "the figure of a Catholic priest appear, then disappear." Thus Zarur was inspired by the "truth of spiritualism"-which, as a blend of Catholic symbols and African superstitions, is one of the most serious obstacles to the growth of Christianity in Brazil. He dreamed up a new agony radio program called Hour of Good Will. Letters poured in dripping with misfortunes and appeals for help, and as Zarur read them over the air, he was fascinated by the number...