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...band finds food, but things begin to go strangely wrong. Their best hunter does not return from a foray. The two children are stolen. Finally, the Neanderthals discover their enemies. They are a tall, erect race of Homo sapiens, equipped with log boats, bows and arrows. In the blind struggle of mutual fear waged in the dark forests, the new men kill the last Neanderthal woman. The last dawn man crawls back to his cave and docilely assumes the burial posture, knees drawn to chest. At the edge of the cave can be seen the shapes of hyenas...
...Coal Miner Arnold Smith, 46, has been so completely freed of the palsy that he has taken up a new career as a physiotherapy aide at the Whitesburg Memorial Hospital in Kentucky. Remarkably erect Joan Harris, now 15, of Larchmont, N.Y., is doing well in school. The boy, 13, is as straight as a spruce, and supple as a birch...
Last week, smiling and erect at 86, the incredibly durable Alte seemed livelier than ever as he rose to address the Christian Democratic party conference at Dortmund. His major concern clearly was the pack of daily rumors and counter-rumors about when he would retire. "I should like to speak a word about this very openly," declared Adenauer, admitting that he had written a letter just before last September's elections ruling himself out as a candidate in 1965. But, he added coyly, "I did not mention a date. I think it was right...
...hold my head erect...
Belmonte perfected his harrowing verónicas and pases naturales to give bullfighting its modern style-the hands held low, elbows close to the ribs, the body unmoving and erect. His was "a sinister delicacy of movement," explained Aficionado Hemingway, "a beautiful, unhealthy mystery," in which the crowd's emocón grew fiery at the sight of his "evident physical inferiority, not only to the bull but to those working with him and to most who were watching...