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...Rajewski speculates that the village was built on its island at a time when northern Poland had a fairly warm and dry climate. About 500 B.C. the climate got colder and wetter, and the lake's level rose. For a while the villagers tried to keep pace, raising the level of their houses and streets. Eventually they gave up, and abandoned their houses to the rising water...
When the D.A.R. protested to former Governor J. P. Coleman in 1958, he defended the book-buying system and managed to keep it intact. When Governor Barnett took office last January, he agreed with the D.A.R., as well as with the equally agitated American Legion and Citizens' Councils...
...Irish moors and "When-I-was-a-child-in-Afghanistan-my-grandmother-used-to-tell-me" reminiscences. The New Yorker's cartoons still run faithfully to prisoners or to strandees on lonely islands. "I get awfully sick of prison pictures," admits Art Director James Geraghty, "but they keep coming in, and sometimes they're funny." Profilers who once chronicled the great, the powerful and the eccentric now lean heavily to such personalities as winetasters and Hebrew-language scholars, generally avoid politics...
...drawn by a wondrously dilapidated steam engine called "Victoria"-apparently because it was built in the year (1819) of Her Majesty's birth-and go barreling through the enemy barricades. The plot is as old as Noah but as lively as it ever was, and if the British keep on like this, they might well make easterns as popular as westerns...
...theaters and 420 drive-in movies. It has taken advantage of the leisure-time boom, moved vending machines into sports arenas, bowling alleys and stock-car racetracks. At Squaw Valley's Olympic Games last winter ABC did $280,000 worth of business in ten days, decided to keep its snack bars in the area permanently...