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...fruits and nuts, man's ancestors, says Morris, were forced to become hunters to survive. In the swift pace of the hunt, those with the least body hair became least overheated and ran down the most game; through a process of evolutionary selection, man gradually shed his furry coat entirely. Those who competed most effectively with the stronger and swifter carnivores of the open spaces were those who began to walk and run in an upright position, increasing their speed and freeing their hands to grasp weapons of the hunt. Those who learned to outsmart their four-legged competitors...
...walked into the 90-degree heat and headed for the military or civilian arrival areas. Waiting for baggage and immigration clearance took an hour in a plain little room bearing a welcome sign posted by Rotary International (luncheon meetings every third Tuesday, 12:30, at the Saigon Hotel, coat...
...whole process was bitter medicine for Britain, and Harold Wilson could offer little good news with which to sugar-coat it. December, the first full month after devaluation, brought a balance of payments deficit of $168 million, the third highest monthly total of the year...
...with the Parisian magazine Elle to fly 100 French housewives to London free for a shopping weekend. It picked up speed soon after Britain's devaluation, which cut sterling prices by 14.3% in terms of francs, marks, dollars and other major currencies-enough to reduce a $32 coat to $27. By last week, with the added lure of January sales, the influx of foreign shoppers to London's West End stores had swelled to a torrent...
Died. Michael Popp, 62, Ike's Army tailor during World War II who, after the general complained about his bulky, hip-length officer's jacket, snipped out the natty, waist-length "Eisenhower jacket," which became the most popular bit of military wardrobe since the trench coat; of a heart attack; in Hamilton, Ohio...