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Louis Solano '24 is at 73 the oldest candidate running for the council, and he said last week he has a special concern for the political rights of the elderly. "The elderly should have a representative on the council so they won't have to be suppliants," he said. He has spoken out against illegal research on the elderly conducted at Boston City, Hospital and against condominium conversion. He says he wants to "educate groups to use their political power...
...strong enough to elect several Congressmen, a few Governors and lots of local officials. In last year's election, a paltry 15,893 voters-.02% of the total-pulled the Prohibitionist lever. Moreover, the party, which was formed in 1869 and is the nation's third oldest, has not elected anybody to anything since the days when people drank their whisky out of teacups. What to do? Last week the party did what many another stumbling enterprise has done: changed its name. The N.P.P. will henceforth-at least on an experimental basis in some states-be known...
Scientists believe they are closing in on the time when this earliest form of man emerged. Fossil evidence shows the split that produced the first human must have occurred longer ago than 3.5 million years?the age of the oldest known Homo fossils, which were found in 1975 by Mary Leakey. Again, the rigorous demands of savanna living may have been responsible for the branching out. Australopithecus africanus, straining to augment its food supply in the flat grasslands, began to eat meat?probably obtaining it not by hunting, but by scavenging the kills left behind by large predators. Australopithecus robustus...
With things going so badly for the harriers, Sheehan and Co. might as well have stopped awhile and rummaged in the woods for some golf balls themselves. You can usually find some vintage Spaldings because Van Cortland golf course, founded in 1896, is the oldest public links in America...
...Bedford; in an automobile accident near Paris. Famous for the parties she gave in Manhattan and Paris, the American-born oil heiress and socialite was married in 1968 to her third husband, Duke Emmanuel de Crussol d'Uzès, who holds the oldest title in France...