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...There are already 37,000 women volunteers serving in the U.S. armed forces, including more than 800 in Viet Nam. Draft Director Lewis B. Hershey, 74, crusty bugbear of millions of draft-age males, recalls an attempt to draft nurses during World War II that was stymied by Congress. Anthropologist Margaret Mead favors conscription of all youth for public service and sees no reason why girls should be exempt. The present draft, she complains, "sets girls and young women apart as if they did not exist...
From the Circus. In 1962, Italian Anthropologist Venerando Correnti identified the bones-which consist of approximately half a skeleton-as those of a robustly built man about 5 ft. 4 in. in height and between 65 and 72 years of age. An analysis of the dirt found with the bones, Dr. Guarducci claimed, showed that it had come from the area near the circus of Nero, where Peter was crucified...
Quite properly, many observers note that changing gun laws will not help much as long as people yield to the violent impulses that seize them. "Cain and not Abel, is the father of man," notes Chicago Psychiatrist Bruno Bettelheim. Half a century ago in The Golden Bough, Anthropologist Sir James Frazer discerned "a solid layer of savagery beneath the surface of society, unaffected by the superficial changes of religion and culture." To cope with what Sir James described as this "standing menace to civilization," many authorities suggest that a way must be found to control aggression and, as Detroit Psychiatrist...
...says. "In literature, this is expressed in a greater interest in the material, the linguistic texture, than in the thought content." Literary Critic Maurice Nadeau finds, furthermore, that many young novelists are simply "popularizing or dramatizing the linguistic and sociological findings" of such popular scholars as University of Paris Anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss...
Died. The Rev. J. Franklin Ewing, 62, Roman Catholic priest and noted anthropologist at Fordham University, who believed in Darwin's theory of evolution while also holding that God created the climate in which living creatures could evolve; after a long illness; in Peekskill, N.Y. Leader of several anthropological expeditions to the Middle East, he still said God created man, and "whether he used the method of evolution or created him from unorganized matter is not of primary importance...