Word: proconsulate
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...missing link got demoted at last week's London meeting of the International Congress of Zoology. The chimp-size fossil primate Proconsul africanus, which lived in east Africa 30 million years ago, had been described as sitting in the family tree of both ape and man. Its skull, though primitive, is not conclusively apelike, so there seemed to be a good possibility that its descendants could be humans or apes or both...
...recently found bones of Proconsul's forearm and hand spoiled this theory. According to Anatomists John Napier and Peter Davis of the University of London, they clearly belonged to a brachiator, a creature that swung by its hands from bough to bough. So Proconsul must have been an ape, perhaps an ancestor of modern apes but not of non-brachiating man. The true missing link is still to be found...
...most Frenchmen are prepared to throw France's democracy overboard and give a free hand to De Gaulle or anyone else. But neither has the time come when they are prepared to confront the implications of the fear confessed two weeks ago by Socialist Robert Lacoste, outgoing French proconsul in Algeria. Said Lacoste to a French newsman: "Why is all the world against France? You believe it is because we are not in the current of history? Yes, you believe it. I also...
...quietly at Aleppo's guesthouse, then announced with studied casualness that he was going out for a tour of Syria's largest city (pop. nearly 500,000). He climbed into a black sedan driven by Lieut. Colonel Abdel Hamid Serraj, the man he has picked for his proconsul in Syria-now known as the United Arab Republic's "Northern Region." Serraj drove him to the airport, where Nasser's private airplane waited.' Under cover of darkness and secrecy, the plane headed southwest past Israel's intervening airspace, and arrived safely back in Cairo...
...firing of General Douglas MacArthur, who considered himself "the proconsul in Asia": "It's too bad that the general didn't have a good political adviser. If he'd have consulted me about what he ought to do, I would have made it much easier for him, and he'd be a much more popular man than he is today...