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Dutch engineers kept the machine's weight down to 130.5 lbs. by fashioning the body out of plastics. A 50-cc moped motor was tuned for top efficiency. To maintain the required 9.3 m.p.h. average speed, the driver repeatedly accelerated, coasted until the speed dropped, then slowly speeded up again...
William Walsh, attorney for Harlow Properties and several other major Cambridge landlords, said last week that the Harlow family has sent letters to all of its tenants urging them to vote for anti-rent control candidates David Sullivan, a CC '77 council candidate, says the feelings of Harlow's tenants are such that this letter would only encourage them further to vote for pro-rent control candidates...
...Jonathan Leakey, another of Louis' sons, unearthed parts of a 1.8 million-year-old skull that failed to fit easily into the familiar Australopithecus mold. The creature's teeth were more manlike than those of Australopithecus and the brain was larger; whereas Australopithecus brains averaged 450 to 550 cc. in volume, the cavity of the skull found by Jonathan Leakey indicated that it had contained a brain measuring nearly 700 cc. That was considerably smaller than modern man's brain?which averages 1,400 cc.?but large enough to suggest that it had belonged to a being that...
...evolved hominid. The skull, called "1470" after its National sockets of a highly evolved -?hominid. The skull, called On the threshold of humanity. "1470" after its National Museums of Kenya catalogue number, was manlike in configuration and, according to Leakey's measurements, once contained a brain of 800 cc.?more than half the average size of a modern human brain. But what excited the team most was the age of the skull. Probably a Homo habilis, 1470 was more than...
...labeled 1590, proved that Homo habilis?from whom man could have descended?coexisted with Australopithecus, thus weakening arguments that the latter was man's direct ancestor. Then, in 1975, the Turkana site yielded a Homo erectus skull resembling that of Peking man and with a brain size of 900 cc. The age of the fossil, about 1.5 million years, showed that Homo erectus had emerged even earlier and was hunting in the African plains while Australopithecus still roamed the earth. Because the more advanced Homo erectus was almost certainly a direct ancestor of modern man, the new skull...