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...years old. Since it is a piece of humerus, or upper arm, conforming remarkably to the skeletal structure of modern man, the Kanapoi hominid apparently lived 750,000 years earlier than Homo habilis, previously thought to be man's oldest direct ancestor known to have walked erect. Alas, the Kanapoi hominid probably didn't live very long. "The lake there teemed with crocodiles," said Patterson...
Former Harvard tutor Richard Tillinghast authored the last of the great poems, "Ascension Day: Waking on the Train." The narrative viewpoint is clouded, seemingly drifting between dream and drowsy waking. In the transitions, a county-fair balloon ascension becomes associated with an erection the narrator wakes up with: "The man in the train compartment is to have an erection/ which in turn will cause the giant balloon to ascend." Meanwhile, soldiers on the train, who "always sleep erect/ as though in training for an awkward death," have become the subjects of negative antimilitary associations, and gun down the balloon erection...
...Alvarez hopes they are there, awaiting only the arrival of his spark chamber to be found. "After a boyhood spent watching his father's workers erecting a beautiful and complex series of chambers and passages in the Great Pyramid," he asks, "would Chephren be content to erect a solid and uninteresting pile of limestone blocks as his own pyramid...
...agreement signed by Logue is just a promise by the BRA to erect 400 units of housing on part of a 57.3 renewal site called Madison Park and to consult with the LRCC about development plans for the area. But that promise was at least six months in coming...
Less than a month after disclosing; Soviet efforts to erect a defensive shield of antiballistic missiles, Defense Secretary Robert McNamara revealed last; week that both Russia's defensive missile system and its long-range offensive missiles are going into place faster than U.S. intelligence sources had anticipated. The Russians, it is now estimated will have from 650 to 700 iCBMs in; place by 1968 instead of the 600 previously expected. Of greater consequence, its new anti-missile system, which was at first thought to be limited to such major cities as Moscow and Leningrad, is now believed...