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...fencing team picked James R. Pusey '62 of Quincy House and Cambridge to captain them next year. Pusey was third saber man this year, and will probably move to first position...
...than the Peking man or Java man. Says Leakey, a broad, rumpled, sometime Cambridge don: "My 19-year-old son Jonathan wandered across a slope during a pause in our other work at Olduvai and picked up a small fragment of animal jaw. 'You've got a saber-toothed tiger.' I said. We'd been expecting to get one. So we started a small dig, and the first thing we got was a human tooth. That's the way things are found in archaeology-a combination of keen observation and luck...
...solving the problem of copying the brain is neither necessary nor desirable, since nature did not design it for intelligence. "The brain of man, like that of other vertebrates, is an item of random design to meet one basic purpose: survival. The fact that it has outthought things like saber-toothed tigers is no evidence that it is particularly apt for abstract thinking...
Columbia took both the foil and the sabre, 6 to 3, and 5 to 4. The varsity's individual summaries here were: foil--captain Larry Johnson, 2-1, Mahlon Wheeler, 0-3, and Walter McBeth, 1-2; saber--Jon Piel, 2-1, Lajes Heder, 2-1, and Jamie Pusey...
...Baudouin's presence did nothing to soothe the strikers. Next day a rampaging mob of 5,000 clashed with saber-swinging police in front of the Sabena airlines of fice; in the crowd, someone pulled a pistol and fired wildly, fatally wounding one striker, injuring others. It was the first serious bloodshed, but perhaps not the last, since the Socialists swore to keep the protests going indefinitely...