Word: proconsul
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...current Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, Anatomist W. E. Le Gros Clark of Oxford adds new details to his theory that fossil primates (Proconsuls) found in Kenya show more manlike than apelike characteristics. They have no "simian shelf" (bony reinforcing) in the lower jaws, and their limbs suggest that they did not swing through the trees. Such ape traits were probably developed by specialization later than Proconsul's time...
Since the several species of Proconsul lived in the Lower Miocene period (25 million years ago, halfway back to the dinosaurs), it looks as if man has had no near ape-cousins to worry about for at least that long...
...diesel train pulled out of suburban Mehlem, five miles south of Bonn, a mixed crowd of Germans and Americans cheered the ruddy-faced American waving from a coach window. John J. McCloy, 57, retiring U.S. High Commissioner for Germany, was on his way home after three long years as proconsul, diplomat and military adviser to the most battered, most divided and most important land in Europe...
...Blackest Nazis. Behind its imposing, heavily guarded barricade are seven sick and lonely men, the only inmates. But they are seven of the blackest Nazis still alive: Rudolf Hess, one of Hitler's closest confidants; Karl Doenitz, once commander of the German navy; Baron Konstantin von Neurath, former proconsul of Czechoslovakia; Albert Speer, Hitler's production genius; Walter Funk, director of Nazi finances; Baldur von Schirach, leader-hero of Nazi youth; and ex-Admiral Erich Raeder...
...morning this week General Matthew B. Ridgway ceased to be allied proconsul over defeated Japan. By the terms of the peace treaty, the Japanese were a sovereign people again (see below). Three hours later came more news about Matt Ridgway: he would soon be replaced as commander of U.N. forces in Korea. The reason: President Truman had chosen him to succeed General Eisenhower at SHAPE. The change will be effective approximately June 1, the day Ike doffs his uniform to seek the presidency...