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...miles from the nearest inhabited place, has long presented scientists with a stony enigma. Somehow, some time in the past, an industrious people carved out hundreds of stone statues of big-nosed, long-eared men and moved the figures, weighing up to 50 tons, from inside an extinct volcano to stone platforms rimming the island. According to archaeological evidence, the job was done without metal, without knowledge of the wheel, without technical aids save poles and fiber ropes. How could this feat be accomplished...
...check this theory, Dr. Kohman suggests, is more thorough analysis of tektites. Tektites that came from a stellar system much younger than the solar system should, for example, contain traces of short-lived elements (e.g., plutonium 244 and curium 247) that have long been extinct on earth...
...quite ready to declare the recession extinct or the threat of a setback ended. Automobile production sagged 19% off last year's rate; industrial building was off 31%. Canadians also kept an eye on the U.S., where an economic revival is certain to give an extra push to Canadian business...
Israel Lazar, also known as William Lawrence, 54, sometime manager of the now extinct Daily Worker, was identified by ex-Communist Witness John Lautner as head of a Communist Party "cultural division" that directed and coordinated the work of secret Reds in the entertainment industry. Lazar refused to confirm or deny anything...
...practice in 1943, when he became a member of the A.F.M.'s executive board. His grey-flannel-suited unionism is as remote from Jimmy's overpadded whoop-and-holler style as the violin section from the brasses. The Petrillo breed, lamented Jimmy last week, is extinct: "I used to be able to say to the bosses, 'Go to hell,' and they went to hell. Now you tell them 'Go to hell,' and they tell you back, 'You go to hell.' What the unions need these days is smooth guys." Responded Smooth...