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...surviving hunter-gatherers provide any clue, man's distant past probably was more placid and, in some ways, more rewarding than his present. In their hostile environment, the Kalahari Bushmen find enough to eat with less effort than most civilized peoples. Anthropologist Lee estimates that the Bushman's daily diet averages 2,140 calories and 93.1 grams (3.26 oz.) of protein-well in excess of the estimated daily allowance for people of their vigor and size (1,975 calories, 60 grams of protein). The Bushmen have about the same proportion of people over 60 in their society...
...three winners are Bernard Bailyn, Winthrop Professor of History, for The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution; Henry Allen Bullock of Texas Southern University for A History of Negro Education in the South from 1619 to the Present; and Richard L. Bushman '53 of Brigham Young University for From Puritan to Yankee: Character and the Social Order in Connecticut...
...hippie is all juvenile protest. He wears his hair extravagantly long because short hair was once the Establishment's style, and he opposes the Establishment. In a predominantly long-haired society-the African Bushman's, for example-he would doubtless shave his skull. The respectable longhair, on the other hand, is protesting nothing, and, what's more, his hair is only respectably long...
...screening process are visible under a microscope. Below the skin's outermost horny layer, or stratum corneum (see diagram), lies a germinative layer where, on exposure to sunlight, the pigment-producing cells are stimulated to produce more melanin-and a suntan. The black races (Negro, Bushman-Hottentot and Australoid), with a more abundant supply of melanin, are in effect, perpetually tanned. Members of the white race are transparent-skinned in winter, when they must make the most of the limited ultraviolet avail able to synthesize vitamin D, but they take a tan in summer, when they might suffer from...
Died. Francis X. Bushman, 83, first of the silent film idols; of a heart attack; in Pacific Palisades, Calif. Tall, flashing-eyed and granite-jawed, Bushman made more than 400 romantic two-reelers between 1911 and 1918, became a rage. "The King," they called him, and he lived the part - 18 secretaries to answer his fan mail, a 280-acre estate near Baltimore, 300 Great Danes, and a gold-trimmed Marmon limousine. He made and spent $6,000,000 in five years, and then his secret got out - a wife and five children. The fans faded, the 1929 crash wiped...