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Anthropologists unearthed him in 1856, and described him as a beetle-browed, bent-kneed apeman, though his cranium (at 1,600 cc.) was more capacious than that of a contemporary brain (averaging 1,450 cc.). Writers as disparate as Irving Crump (Og) and William Golding (The Inheritors) patronized him as a subhuman slob. Yet Homo Neanderthalensis, so named for the Central European valley in which his bones were discovered, survived for 2,000 generations and seems to have had the same sensitivities as his descendants. Writing in the monthly report of the French Prehistoric Society, Archaeologist Arlette Leroi-Gourhan described...
...School for the coming spring term. Alice will stay at the East Side apartment of a family friend, John Hay Whitney, former U.S. Ambassador to the Court of St. James's-nice enough digs, but quite a switch for Alice, who will have to leave behind her 175-cc. B.S.A. motorcycle and all her swinging siblings: Julian, 27, a London film maker and male fashion model; Jane, 25, wife of a Carnaby Street boutique owner; Victoria, 21, granny-style dresser and folk-rock fan; and Francis, 14, who rides his own 350-cc. bike...
...situation." What he means is that when the Italian economy was in low gear, Fiat built small cars-robust, versatile, economic. But since its 1964 slump, the economy has been picking up speed, and now Fiat is too. Its cars are getting bigger and faster. Tiny, 500 cc. to 600 cc. "Mickey Mouse" models are giving way to huskier, 1,000 cc. to 1,500 cc. sedans that now account for 34% of production. And demand for the bigger, more powerful cars is increasing steadily. With fatter paychecks in their pockets, 4,000,000 Italians now take...
Negro students seem to be withdrawing more and more from out-of-class socializing with their white peers. At the University of Wisconsin, Negroes have virtually taken over one section of the student rathskeller, which is now known as the "CC" (colored corner). "There's a sense of wanting to be together-we can depend on each other," explains one. Some Negroes at Harvard are tired of finding themselves alone at dining tables, fending off questions about civil rights from groups of white classmates. "There might be one or two white cats you might feel close to," says Yale...
However, before any large conclusions are drawn from that, another fact must be considered: on the average, the skull capacity of modern whites is some 150 cc. smaller than that of Neanderthal man, who lived 50,000 years ago. Some anthropologists go so far as to say that the Negro's attributes, coupled with the ordeal of slavery, have produced in him a physically superior race-a theory that gains strength from the Negro's extraordinary ability in athletics. The strongest African blacks were selected as the best slave material; only the hardiest of these survived ocean transport...