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...taking one route that led to the great apes of Africa, another to man? Paleontologists generally believe, on the basis of bits and pieces of fossils millions of years old, that the common ancestor may have been the small, long extinct apelike animal named Dryopithecus (from the Greek for "oak" and "ape"). They also speculate that the evolutionary parting of the ways that resulted in Homo sapiens occurred some 15 million years...
...Republican groupies stepped soft-shoe through the crimson glamor of the Harvard Club, looking at oak wall fixtures and wondering at the absurdity...
...Oak Park...
...Oak Ridge, Tenn...
DIED. George Bliss, 60, award-winning investigative reporter for the Chicago Tribune; by his own hand, after apparently shooting and killing his wife; in Oak Lawn, Ill. A series on a scandal-infested municipal sanitary district won him a Pulitzer Prize in 1962; subsequently, he headed inquiries into election fraud and federal housing programs that garnered his paper two more Pulitzers. According to Tribune Editor Clayton Kirkpatrick, Bliss was a "perfectionist who agonized over details and in effect became a victim of his own intense devotion to journalism...