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...synthesis of vitamin D, which prevents rickets and is manufactured from the sun's rays by the body. As early man migrated out of the tropical sun-into the green jungle, north to less torrid zones-light skin thereupon conferred an advantage by admitting more vitamin D-produc-ing sunlight. And the lottery of evolution, patiently awaiting the appropriate mutation, then fixed this advantage into place. Thus, over the centuries, environmental factors were producing genetic changes...
...largest depart ment store group announced last week that he was relinquishing his title. Fred Lazarus Jr. turned full command over to Son Ralph, 53, and will keep only the honorary assignment of executive committee chairman of Federated Department Stores Inc. The man succeed ing Ralph as president of the Cincinnati-based organization is J. Paul Sticht, 49, a onetimeCampbell Soup Co. executive who joined Federated in 1960 and has been serving as a vice chairman, along with Maurice Lazarus, an other of Fred's sons. Sticht will handle operations of the 97-stores while Ralph Lazarus will concern...
Such a bond can cost a man a stiff $400-$500 a year - if he can get it. Op erating with an $85,000 grant from the Department of Health, Education and Welfare, Bonabond provides such bonds cheaply and is a potent force in narrow ing the gulf between employers and men with prison records. Bonabond lists 355 vouched-for employables in its files, and in the past two months has placed people in 98 jobs, ranging from porter to police-community relations aide for the Urban League...
...know more about the to pography of the moon than about the earth's topography," said British Astronomer Zdeněk Kopal. None of the other 1,000 astronomers gathered in Prague last week for the 13th meet ing of the International Astronomical Union disputed him. They had just seen giant new U.S. and Russian charts of the moon's hidden farside. Together with familiar maps of the lunar near side, the charts did indeed give man a clearer view of the moon's features than of the earth's surface, large portions of which...
...highly successful (if provoked) act of aggression was greeted with enthusiasm by most West European intellectuals." How explain this enthusiasm among so many "Third-World-befriend-ing, antimilitarist intellectuals? Is it that beneath these attitudes there lies something very different-a long-frustrated wish to revenge the humiliation of the past 20 years, to take it out on the fuzzy-wuzzies, as the 'European' Israelis decidedly did? Is it possible, further, that the anti-Americanism of European intellectuals expresses not so much a wish for the triumph of North Viet Nam's peasant army...