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Cheech and Chong, Ode recording artists, will :
return to Lincoln this Saturday. The Spanish
Chinese duo were nominees for a Grammy for
comedy records and have three gold albums to
their credit: Cheech & Chong, Big Bambu, and
Los Cochinos. The last achieved its golden status
before it was released.
The ribald pair have had a number of hit comedy
singles including "Santa Ciaus and His Old
Lady" and their current hit, "Ear Ache, My Eye."
Cheech and Chong and "The Incredible Ricky
Jay" will perform at Pershing Auditorium Sept. 7
at 8 p.m.
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NOSFERAU
Directed, by F. W. Murnau
Germany 1 922
Friday September 6 &
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Screenings at 3, 7 & 9 p.m. Admission $1 .25
Sheldon Art Gallery 12th and R Streets
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George Shearing
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New Christy Minstrels
Carnival De Mexico
James McCraken and
Sandra Warfieid
Spanish Radio-TV
Symphony Orchestra
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'Gold of the Gods'
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Book review by tadd Petersen.
In The Gold of the Gods, Erich von
Daniken continues to expound his
theory that in prehistoric times the earth
was visited by extraterrestrial beings.
This theory, first propounded in von
Daniken's Chariots of the Gods and
later in his Gods from Outer Space,
holds that these intelligent beings
mated with humans and gave them
intelligence and the rudiments of
civilization. ,
Von Daniken finds the proof for these
speculations in ancient mythology, in
the Bible and in some of the great stonei
works and caves dating from prehistoric
times.
In this latest work (a new book
entitled My World In Pictures currently
is being translated into English) von
Daniken expands his theory to include a
reason for the aliens' visit to earth.
According to von Daniken, the visitors
were the losers in a mighty galactic
battle between intelligences similar to
human beings, but much more advan
ced technologically. To escape destruc
tion by their enemy, the losers In this
war fled to earth and dug underground
tunnel systems (one of which von
Daniken claims to have seen in Ecuador)
to hide their presence.
To fool their enemy, von Daniken
says, they set up fake colonies on the
fifth planet from the sun, which no
longer exists. When the enemy detected
these colonies they destroyed the
planet, creating what is now the asteroid
belt.
The sudden gravitational inbalance in'
the soiar system caused by the pi'atiet"s
destruction tilted the earth on its axis, ip
turn causing massive flooding which,
von Daniken says, is recorded in the
history and mythology of many ancient
cultures.
After their successful trickery, the
aliens supposedly came out of hiding
and, using their knowledge of molecular
biology, created man in their image
from the monkeys extant on earth ana
started them on the road to civilization.
He includes other theories and tales
that would seem better placed in
"Believe it or Not" or the National
Enquirer. For instance, one theory
suggests that the banana was brought to
earth by extraterrestrials, in a Playboy
interview (August 1974), von Daniken
admitted that the "banana theory" was
a put-on. Yet he does not tell the reader
this in the book, and thus, the question
arisehow much of the book can the
reader safely believe? .
For instance, the author claims to
have seen magnificent underground
tunnels in Ecuador, presumably con
structed by aliens. But the owner of the
land which covers these alleged tunnels
swears that von Daniken never saw
them or the wonderful artifacts and
statues within which he describes in the
book. Whom are we to believe?
Von Danikens's style is at least partly
responsible for his staggering success
more than 25 million volumes of his
three works are in print. He often
ridicules scholars and scientists for not
accepting his views, explaining reluct-,
ance to abandon their own theories by
saying, "No one likes to fail of a
skyscraper he has built himself."
The reader would feel easier about
the works if he did not run across quotes
like this one from the Playboy interivew:
"In Germany we say a writer, if ho is not
writing pure science, is allowed to use
some 'dramaturgische Effekte' some
theatrical effects. ,And that's what .!:
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1 But it is just these questionable
techniques that have contributed to von
Daniken's success, and who can fault
techniques that sell 25, million books?
Clearly, von Daniken is doing his best to
earn his share of the gold of the gods.
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