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...tape machine in the expedition's camp), the original owner of the bones was not the most prepossessing of creatures. She stood about 3½ ft. tall and had a head the size of a softball. But despite her size, Lucy turned out to be a colossus. Careful dating of her remains showed that she had antedated Homo sapiens (who appeared 100,000 years ago) by some 3.5 million years. More important, the evidence she left behind showed that she walked on two legs, not on all fours. Lucy clearly was not an ape. And while she might...
...that Rowland, who paid $14 million in stock for the Observer, would maintain its "high standards." Others are not so sure. Though Rowland publishes papers in Scotland, he is primarily a corporate empire builder. He has expanded Lonrho, originally a small African mining and land company, into a multifaceted colossus, typically by buying shares in target companies, then joining the board of directors and fighting other members for control. He is now embroiled in such a battle for the House of Fraser, which owns London's Harrods and 109 other department stores...
...take their stylistic base from, of all things, late De Chirico- not the pre-1918 master of tailor's dummies and spare, aching urban spaces, but the pompous neoclassicist of the '30s. Coarsely colored and drawn with a kind of savvy crudeness, Caret's Flaming Colossus, 1980, resembles nothing so much as a black squid with humanoid ambitions, silhouetted against a conventionally "apocalyptic" background of fire. Yet on this preposterous level, it does work as an image, generating enough energy to blow its neighbors off the wall...
DIED. Richard S. Reynolds Jr., 72, president and chairman, between 1948 and 1976, of the Reynolds Metals Co., the big (1979 revenues: $3.3 billion) aluminum maker founded by his father in 1928; of a heart attack; in Richmond. A grandnephew of the founder of the Reynolds tobacco colossus, Reynolds liked to say that "profits are to business what breathing is to life." He helped launch a Wall Street brokerage firm (now part of Dean Witter Reynolds Inc.) before moving to the aluminum company, which is still about 12% owned by the Reynolds family...
With its huge size and vast mineral resources, Brazil ought to be one of the world's most prosperous nations. Instead a series of policy blunders and punishing outside factors have pushed the colossus of the south once again into a quagmire of economic problems...