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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...magazine goes to press. Every one of the 1,000 or more letters that arrive in the mail each week receives a reply from TIME'S Letters Department, which is headed by Maria Luisa Cisneros and staffed by 13 assistants. The letters department also performs a less well-known task: answering the 150 or so letters a week from people requesting information-some additional bit of elaboration or an answer to a question. That is the demanding job for Marian Powers, Carla Lyddan and Mimi Olszewska, who find that unwrinkling readers' brows can put a furrow...
...case for Ramapithecus as the first hominid, Simons and Pilbeam dispute a competing claim by the Kenyan anthropologist, Louis Leakey. Two years ago Leakey announced that 20 million-year-old fossils that he had discovered near Africa's Lake Victoria and dubbed Kenyapithecus africanus belonged to the earliest known manlike creature (TIME, Feb. 3, 1967). After applying their dental tests' to casts of Leakey's prehistoric fragments, the Yalemen decided that Kenyapithecus lacked the characteristics of early man. Though Leakey still insists that Kenyapithecus is a hominid, most other scientists now believe that...
...hours. After Cream and Traffic broke up, Clapton and Winwood began a series of two-man sessions, alternating between Clapton's $100,000 house in the Surrey hills south of London and Winwood's whitewashed, $5-a-week farm cottage on the Berkshire downs. Baker, who had known Clapton since they worked together in John Mayall's Bluesbreakers, "just showed up" one day and started sitting in. With the addition of Grech, they had a fourth member and the harmonic "middle" that Clapton had always missed in Cream...
Part of the LP's influence has to do with distribution. Today virtually every form of sound known to and made by man, from primitive African chants to serialistic chamber music - "the old, the new, the modern, the academic, the screwball," as Conductor Erich Leinsdorf puts it - is easily available to increasingly sophisticated listeners. What the composer writes is indelibly affected by that fact. Italy's Luciano Berio notes that Debussy was influenced by Javanese music, but had to discover it by pure chance. If it had not been per formed at the Paris Universal Exhibition...
Died. Zaddie Bunker, 81, known as "the flying great-grandmother," who went buzzing off into the wild blue at an age when most of her contemporaries were shopping for rocking chairs; of cancer; in Palm Springs, Calif. Mrs. Bunker was 65 when she earned her pilot's license; a year later she took off on the first of three transcontinental solo flights ("Motoring just isn't safe enough," she explained) and at 71 rode through the sound barrier in an Air Force F-100F Super Sabre. Two years ago, she even applied to be an astronaut. "I could...