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Anthropologist C. Loring Brace waded in with the observation that humans who now wear the least clothing have the least hair on their bodies; those who wear the most have the greatest amount of hair. Brace believes that man lost his hair by hunting in the noon heat of tropical days; natural selection favored the relatively hairless hunters, whose bodies were best equipped to dissipate heat. This happened more than half a million years ago, says Brace, or roughly 400,000 years before man developed clothing...
...POWDER MAN by Joan Williams. 312 pages. Harcourt, Brace & World...
...AGGRESSION by Konrad Lorenz. 306 pages. Harcourt, Brace & World...
...PREMIER; THE TRAIN by Georges Simenon. 248 pages. Harcourt, Brace & World...
Armed with heat-seeking Sidewinder missiles and Sparrow radar-guided missiles, the U.S. flight leader dove out of the sun but overshot on his first pass. Three MIGs cut between the Phantoms, separating them into pairs, and went after the two U.S. lead planes. The second brace of F-4Cs, sweeping into the classic 6 o'clock target position that the Sidewinders require for homing, closed in, dropped one MIG with a missile right up the tailpipe. When a fourth MIG tried to pull in behind, the successful Phantom's wingman pounced, followed through in a diving roll...