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Working in the wartime underground, he hid Allied airmen in his Rome apartment. Hiding from the Gestapo, he slept on streetcars and in churches. He ended the war with a citation from British Field Marshal Alexander and a job as chief anthropologist for the U.S. Army Graves Registration Service. His duties: sorting and reassembling the bones of U.S. soldiers for shipment home. ("Can't you make it faster?" shouted the major in command. "Can't you make it faster!") In 1952, foreseeing a third World War, he fled to Brazil because "it looked big and green...
...Jewish Anthropologist...
...American Anthropologist...
...wads of coca, a leafy narcotic, to ward off hunger and cold. In the village of Hualcan, 200 miles northwest of Lima, only eight of 900 people can even communicate in Spanish; the rest speak Quechua, the language of their Inca ancestors. After a visit to Hualcan, a U.S. anthropologist reported that the Indians at first thought him an evil spirit come to steal the fat from their bones...
...obsolete man," observes William Levenson, education professor at Western Reserve. Whereas earlier generations believed that there were many ways to get ahead, today's teen-agers think that schooling is perhaps the only way to success. "The educational period which was once tentative and experimental," notes Anthropologist Mead, "is now quite as directly functional as the life of a weaver's apprentice during the Middle Ages." The resulting "college education syndrome" puts immense pressures on teenagers. Some kids occasionally rise at 3 a.m. to study-one Washington mother has to forbid her girls to get up before...