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...years ago when he was forced to adapt to fierce variations in climate, and when the brutalities of nature hastened his evolution from the apes. Dating the period precisely has always been difficult. On land, erosion has obliterated almost all trace of the Pleistocene's earliest glaciers. On most parts of the cold, quiet ocean bottom, where remnants of prehistory have survived, ancient sediments have piled up too deeply for convenient study. The cylindrical cores that have been brought up have not reached down to layers deposited at the beginning of the ice age. So scientists have long puzzled...
...Sooner the Better. One of the first of the pressure pioneers, Amsterdam's Dr. Ite Boerema (pronounced Boor-uh-muh), did his earliest work with his smallest patients-"blue babies," whose red blood cells were being starved of oxygen. Born with defects in the heart or its surround ing great vessels, such children are so frail that drastic surgery can kill them. The sooner they can have a corrective operation, the better. Dr. Boerema reasoned that if he could operate under double or triple atmospheric pressure and make the youngsters breathe pure oxygen through a mask, their red cells...
...often called "the Englishman's Bible." Founded in 1826 by John Burke (whose son became Sir Bernard in time for the 17th edition), the book is a kind of Who Was Who that lists more than 150,000 names, and traces each lordly family back to its earliest noble ancestor, thus clearly differentiating survivors of the old, landowning aristocracy from the plebeian parvenus whose titles, created in the past half-century, now represent more than 50% of the peerage...
...next year." To get early tax reduction through Congress, Kennedy planned on a two-package approach?cuts in one package, reform in the other. Again Mills balked, and again Kennedy revised his plans. He gave up the idea of cuts retroactive to Jan. 1, accepted mid-1963 as the earliest possible date for tax reduction to take effect. More important, he dropped the two-package plan. The Administration bill will call for tax revision in stages stretching over two years or more. But it will be a single package, and will include substantial measures of tax reform...
Jacobsen is regarded as a preeminent authority on the ancient cultures of Mesopotamia, especially that of the Sumerian, the earliest civilization. Beginning in 1939, he has conducted a number of important archeological excavations in Mesopotamia...