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...opposite sides of the world last week two veteran paleontologists reported two remarkable fossil finds that could literally be described as superlative. One discovery may well qualify as the "largest," the other as the "oldest...
...oldest find was made by Norman Wakefield, 53, who, like Jensen, is also a tall (6 ft. 2 in.), rangy digger. On holidays from his post as head of the biology department at the teachers' college of Melbourne's Monash University, he likes nothing better than to clamber over the rocks of Australia's bush country. Last September, while exploring a rock-rimmed stream in eastern Victoria, he discovered, preserved in the rock, several small imprints of an ancient four-legged creature with webbed five-toed hind feet and possibly three-toed front feet. Geological dating showed...
This leads to one of the oldest complaints against the league: that it is white-ruled and white-supported. Jordan insists that the league's policies have not softened under white pressure. The league has sharply attacked the Nixon Administration's stand on busing, for example. Still, the league is interested more in accomplishment than in taking stands, however well intended. "I don't think the civil rights movement of the 1970s is a headline-grabbing thing," says Jordan. "The conference is a reaffirmation of the integrated approach to the problems besetting this country...
...keep his professorship at Rutgers University (philosophy of education, Afro-American and urban education), drawing only a part-time salary from Abyssinian. At the same time the Virginia-born educator promises to preach three Sundays a month at the church and shore up its sagging administration. Abyssinian, the oldest major black Baptist church in the North, could use some reinvigoration. It was no secret to anyone that Adam Powell preferred sunning in the Bahamas to sweating it out in Harlem. As Powell's political fortunes and popularity waned during his last years, the membership at Abyssinian plummeted from...
Died. Senator Allen J. Ellender, 81, by seniority automatically president pro tempore of the Senate and therefore third in the line of succession to the U.S. presidency; of a heart attack; in Bethesda, Md. The Senate's oldest and most senior member, Ellender was a graduate of Huey Long's once powerful political machine and was elected to succeed Huey as Senator after Long's assassination in 1935. Though Ellender loyally supported liberal New Deal legislation, he was an old-style Dixie conservative on matters of segregation and social legislation, and once filibustered over 27 hours against...