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ABOVE the entrance to the specially built 8,000-seat "tabernacle," a banner proclaims: BILLY GRAHAM'S GREATER ALBUQUERQUE CRUSADE. Despite the threatening windy weather which has dusted the nearby Sandia Mountains with the season's first snow, some 7,000 people are already waiting in the steel and tar-paper structure-the largest indoor gathering ever assembled in Albuquerque. A Plymouth sedan drives up, and out of it steps the Rev. William Franklin (Billy) Graham, showman, salesman, pressagent, preacher- the hottest Protestant soul-saver since the late Billy Sunday quit the sawdust trail. Albuquerque last week...
...Hunters. According to orthodox theories, the first Americans were the Folsom and the Sandia men, whose ancestors crossed the Bering Strait from Asia. They were highly developed hunters, making beautiful stone weapons to kill dangerous game, and their level of culture was not much below that of Europeans of the same period. But if these up & coming hunters were the first, where did the more primitive Indians come from? Even in historical times, certain tribes in Patagonia and Lower California, for instance, had very low cultures. Between these backward people and those on the Folsom level were many cultural gradations...
Desert Varnish. Anthropologist Carter uses an odd geological time-recorder to support his theory that the Folsom or Sandia hunters invaded a long-inhabited hemisphere. On the deserts of Southern California, many firmly rooted stones are covered with dark brown "desert varnish." No one is sure how this is formed or how long it takes to form, but Folsom-type spearheads found on the desert never show more than a trace of it. The crude weapons of simpler folk are often varnished thickly, and the cruder they are, the darker is the varnish. This is pretty good proof, Carter thinks...
...these earliest Americans-Folsom Man, Sandia Man, Cochise Man-not a single bone has yet been found. But weapons, gnawed animal bones and camp sites indicate his existence beyond dispute. The first archeologist to find the authentic bones of a Pleistocene American will be the most famous digger in the Western Hemisphere...
Unlike Folsom points, which at the butt ends are square and barbed, Sandia points are pointed at both ends, have a characteristic indentation or "shoulder" on one side. Apparently Sandia Man built fires at the cave mouth to cook the animals he killed, and ate them inside. Like Folsom Man, he is a ghost-no human skeletal material has been found. But Dr. Hibben plans further excavation this summer, hopes that remains of Sandia Man, or of Folsom Man, or of both, may come to light...