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...Deal. Alfred's fossil hunting began when he was only 13, when he hiked to the abandoned Granton quarry in North Bergen, a mile from his home. Friends showed him the remains of ancient fish in a layer of fine-grained black shale and Alfred became a paleontologist on the spot. He spent most of his spare time in the old quarry. At night he pored over books on his new hobby. Soon he had an impressive fossil collection, mostly of primitive fish, such as coelacanths, which he took to the Museum of Natural History...
Chasing a fancy butterfly in the green wilds of Tanganyika 50 years ago. a German entomologist named Kattwinkel tumbled off a rocky ledge and nearly killed himself. When he regained his senses, he found himself in an anthropologist's dream world: an erosion-created rift with layer after layer of fossils, bones and ancient artifacts. The find was named Olduvai Gorge, and Kattwinkel's heirs ever since have been scrambling up and down its sun-baked sides in search of clues to man's earliest awakening...
Mystery Planet. Again, the U.S.S.R. did not disclose what observations, if any, the station will make when and if it gets to Venus. Since Venus is practically unknown inside its eternal layer of opaque clouds, very simple instruments should be able to gather important information about it. No one knows whether it has a magnetic field, or even whether it rotates on its axis. Its surface may be hot, dusty and stirred by terrific winds; it may be covered by a single deep ocean, perhaps made of petroleum instead of water. Any shred of information about the mystery planet will...
Although only a thin layer of ice remained on the river, Laura J. Walther '63 wandered onto the ice until she fell through 20 feet from shore. Her date dashed across the ice only to fall through himself. Earl L. Holloway '63 and James J. Combs '63 led the rescue effort by crawling on their stomachs and using a lacrosse stick...
...Will come/ Between our flesh/ Our love"). Other standouts: a triumphant final sextet celebrating the "lesson of love," and the heroine's sprightly address to a mirror to variations of Come, Come, Ye Saints. The opera's weakness is its sameness of tone, its tendency to pile layer upon layer of melody, its failure to etch a real musical profile. Deseret has the musical makings for half a dozen operas but the ideas for scarcely...