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There has been continuous habitation of the Hell Gap area since late glacial times, according to age determinations made by the radiocarbon method...
...party, led by Museum Director John O. Brew, Peabody Professor of American Archaeology and Ethnology, found the remains of two Indian huts at Hell Gap near Guernsey, Wyoming. The huts were built 10,000 years ago, 6000 years before the oldest previously dated houses. Until the recent discovery archaeologists believed that the early Indians were strictly nomadic...
...Hell Gap site has been under excavation for the past five years. The archaeologists have found artifacts there that provide evidence of occupation "considerably" before 9000 B.C. Scholars say that the Indians of the Hell Gap area produced some of the finest examples of flint tools in North America. Many of these tools were discovered on the floors of the two huts...
...salesman who felt that the only music career open to a Negro was as a lowly jazzman. When he was five, his mother sneaked him off to a piano teacher, later encouraged his lessons on the double bass, an instrument he "got stuck with" in order to fill a gap in his high-school orchestra. He also played on the school football team and his father hoped that he might make a career out of it. But when young Henry won a job in the bass-fiddle section of the Los Angeles Philharmonic and a music scholarship to the University...
...dimension to Keynesianism. They began fo use Keynes's theories as a basis not only for correcting the 1960 recession, which prematurely arrived only two years after the 1957-58 recession, but also to spur an expanding economy to still faster growth. Kennedy was intrigued by the "growth gap" theory, first put across to him by Yale Economist Arthur Okun (now a member of the Council of Economic Advisers), who argued that even though the U.S. was prosperous, it was producing $51 billion a year less than it really could. Under the prodding and guidance of Heller, Kennedy thereupon opened...