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...giant tepee in Washington State's isolated Rock Creek canyon, some 200 braves, squaws and papooses of the Rock Creek and Flathead tribes wailed, danced, and thumped tom toms. The occasion: the tribes' annual Root Festival, when members thank the Great Spirit for causing the roots to ripen and the salmon to run. The tepee was electrically lighted; in the grove outside a soft-drink and balloon vendor set up his stand, did a profitable business...
...most heinous vengeances of ancient times was the riveting of Prometheus to the rock so the vultures could get at his vitals. Probably the most exquisite torment possible to our day would be to arrange carborundum filings in your enemy's teeth in such a way that he would be forced to listen to radio programs wherever he wandered. For to even the casual ear--provided its owner is someone halfway bright--present-day American radio is an unrealized and lackluster medium. "It is a stench in the nostrils of the gods of the ionosphere," says radio pioneer Lee DeForrest...
...miners, and even John L. Lewis, who was once a miner himself, knew that Bayless was right. In coal mining there is no absolute safety. Improvements have been made over the years, but the death rate is still high. Last year 974 miners died in rock falls and other accidents-most of them unnoticed beyond their home-town papers-compared with...
...Baer, ex-heavyweight-champ-turned-comedian, visited Indianapolis in his camel's hair coat, dropped in on an old sparring-partner-turned-evangelist, was shortly lifting his voice to lead 5,000 people at Cadle Tabernacle through Rock of Ages and There Is No Night There. Explained Max: "There's a little bit of good...
...ground Europe beneath a creeping glacier. The plains of North Africa and the Middle East (now deserts) were then fertile, supporting a thick population of hunters and their prey-aurochs, oryx, etc. Among these hunters lived the progenitors of one of those broken bodies on the rock ledges of time-the Egyptiac civilization. Later, the ice retreated. The plains turned into deserts. The game fled. The hunters, too, had to retreat...