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Wakefield's colleagues at first showed disbelief, since the earliest fossil evidence of limbed vertebrates in the Southern Hemisphere dates back only 230 million years. But the skeptics were convinced when Wakefield later found in the same area plant fossils that clearly dated back to the same period, often called the Age of Fishes, during which the first primitive amphibians edged their way toward land...
...trouble was that the Supreme Court was in recess until October. When the Justices were polled by telephone they unanimously declined to overrule Douglas and return to Washington for a special summer session. Thus the trial was postponed until autumn at the earliest...
Publicly at least, Washington clings to its policy of isolation. There is almost no chance that President Nixon, who remembers John Kennedy's 1960 taunts about Republicans permitting a Communist victory "90 miles from our shores," will make any gestures toward Havana before November, at the very earliest. But there are some straws in the wind that suggest that the Administration is not so intransigent in its attitude toward Cuba as it used to be. Washington has long been concerned about the increasingly permanent Soviet presence in Cuba. U.S. diplomats have been discussing the possibility of sending a respected...
...textile importer, Kimelman got into the liquor business through his father-in-law, who owned a rum distillery in Puerto Rico. Kimelman moved to St. Thomas after investing in the islands' earliest first-class resort hotel, the Virgin Isle, which he later leased on hugely favorable terms to Hilton. Kimelman and his brother-in-law acquired the distributorships of a number of name-brand liquors, including Cherry Heering, Grand Marnier and J & B Scotch. When the Johnson Administration tried to ease the nation's balance of payments deficit by chopping, from a gallon to a quart, the nontaxable...
...logic is irrefutable: if a man has a thorough medical examination every year or so, doctors should be able to pick up the earliest signs of incipient disease or disability, and thus treat his condition most effectively and economically. But until recently, the omnibus "multiphasic health testing" approach was confined largely to corporate executives and high-echelon employees whose companies considered them valuable enough, in balance-sheet terms, to justify annual expenditures of $200 each or more for checkups. These screenings were performed by such organizations as New York City's Executive Health Examiners, serving the top brass...