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...Kunming field, a mud-brick Chinese village at one end of the runway snagged so many incoming planes into wreckage that ground crews finally leveled it with bulldozers. At one stage more than 700 crashes-including many bombers and tactical aircraft-were spotted on the map at Search and Rescue headquarters in Chabua. India...
Twelve years ago the nation's race tracks cracked down on the widespread practice of "hopping" horses; into limbo went the old standbys, heroin and cocaine, which mandatory saliva and urine tests showed up crystal clear. Inventive horsemen-and few are short on imagination-promptly began a painstaking search for a magic hop that would leave no telltale evidence. Stories and jokes about new nasal sprays and rectally-administered stimulants soon became standard race track shop talk...
...search for the site of man's first civilized home narrowed down last week. The Iraq Government proudly claimed the oldest agricultural village in the world, recently discovered (see map). Its ruins, presumably about 8,000 years old, lay near Hassuna, about 250 miles from Baghdad. The mud-brick houses had rooms some seven feet square. Mixed in the debris were fragments of jars moulded 6,000 years before Christ. In graves lay remains of people not unlike modern...
...announcement from Iraq fitted anthropological theory. The search for the cultural Eden, where the transition to agriculture actually took place, has long since narrowed down to the highland south of the Caucasus Mountains. On its fringes are ruins of settled villages already old when Egypt and Chaldea were peopled by preagricultural savages. But these villages are too highly developed to have been the first farming settlements. Somewhere nearby, anthropologists have believed, lies the place where man first planted-and waited a season to gather the ripened grain...
...orders said: "There is reason to suppose that there have been irregularities. . . ." Investigator Glassco was authorized to search any building where books, records or other documents might be stored, "if necessary by force." The orders named 45 different companies and individuals to which the order could be applied. Glassco was given "absolute discretion." It was even decreed that he would not be held responsible under law for anything he did "in the performance or purported performance of his duties...