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Many anthropologists believe that Man developed from a small, feeble ancestor. Gradually he grew bigger until he reached his present peak. But last week Dr. Ralph von Koenigswald, Dutch paleontologist, pressed a new theory. He thinks that Man grew gigantic a million years ago, then shrank to his present size...
...under them. But Dr. von Koenigswald says there were always plenty of trees in southeast Asia. His giants just got too heavy for Tarzan tactics. When snapping branches dumped them too often, they took to solid ground, armed themselves with stone axes. Then, not needing bulk for protection, they shrank to handier size...
...chill air moved across the vast runways. American Overseas Airlines' Berlin-bound DC-4 Eire fled past on its take-off with the blended snarl of its four engines reassuringly shattering the silence. Men on duty in the control tower watched it perfunctorily as it climbed and shrank from sight on its hop to Shannon, Eire...
This was new medicine to Paraguayans, who were used to settling differences at home by revolution and abroad by war. In 1865 they took on Uruguay, Argentina and Brazil in a five-year battle royal that ended only because Paraguay's able-bodied male population shrank to 28,000. Eleven years ago Paraguay outpointed Bolivia in South America's last war, over the Chaco. Paraguayans still allot almost half their budget to the military, supply Buenos Aires with its toughest cops, ablest soccer players, and remain convinced that, should they choose to extend their ancient, river-bound domain...
Last to drop department-store advertising was the Daily News, which had stored huge reserves of paper and early in the strike had boasted that it was doing fine.*Hardest hit was the tabloid Mirror, which shrank to a skinny eight pages but clung stubbornly to Winchell, Pearson and two pages of comics, along with a nubbin of news. (And moved a nightclub comedian to crack: "I'm so weak I can't even lift a copy of today's Mirror V) Whistling shrilly to keep up its courage, the starveling Mirror ran a daily silver-lining...