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Final identification of Case's and Acosta's diggings as the true city of Tula caused a sudden scrambling and realignment of the picture-puzzle of ancient Mexican history. It proved that the harsh, militaristic Aztecs .earned most of their civilized graces from the gifted Toltecs they had swallowed up 400 years before Cortez arrived. It proved that wandering Toltecs had inspired some of the most magnificent feats of Mayan architecture. Not only boosted were the reputations of Archeologists Caso and Acosta, but that of the bearded god Quetzalcoatl as well. For it proved that the people over...
...secret of the pickup's success is a reel which relieves the plane and glider of sudden starting shock, and smoothly eases the load into the air. Even the towrope is of stretchy nylon. One plane can accumulate a glider train by successive passes at the uprights. Each glider has its separate rope, snubbed individually at varying lengths, to the tow plane's tail...
...would take more than a blow to morale to explain the sudden failure of good, experienced airmen. Perhaps Douglas MacArthur could get at the cause, eradicate it. Meanwhile, short of planes, short of men, short of everything but the will for an offensive, he could go back to an old, sad problem: not how to go after the Jap but how to stop...
Interstellar Influence? In other countries the sudden disappearance of rodent swarms is less spectacular. Yet they always disappear. Zoologists still wonder why. In northern Canada "an outburst of mouse-meat" is always accompanied by an increase of foxes, hawks and other mouse-loving predators. But mouse cycles in Britain, where predators have been largely killed off, are as regular and violent as in wilder lands...
...This sudden rejuvenation of Crimson slugging propensities was accomplished at the expense of two pitchers on the Boston Park League outfit whose unsubtle offerings were unmercifully thrashed by a Crimson lineup determined to have itself a field day after last Monday's whitewashing at the hands of Brown...