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Certain other racial differences are less clearly adaptive. It is known that a newborn Negro baby has more advanced bone development than a white baby. The early lead of the Negro continues throughout growth, so that the adult Negro possesses a generally heavier skeleton than the white adult. Also, Negro babies seem to develop motor control more rapidly than white babies. Among Negro adults, there seem to be different endocrine mechanisms regulating body responses to stress...
...international oil world of giants, Belgium's Petrofina is not notable for size; it ranks 18th among all oil companies. The remarkable fact about Petrofina is that it has become a strapping middleweight with hardly more than a skeleton to work with. After World War II, its lone refinery was in ruins, its fleet reduced to one 9,500-ton tanker and its only oilfields nationalized by Communist Rumania. Today it presides over 60 main subsidiaries in 18 countries, 10,000 service stations in Europe alone and a tanker fleet that totals 1,000,000 tons. Last year...
...likely to have a skeleton text, a book of suggested activities, a visual-aid kit, and the advice of a child psychologist...
Before Labor Day is a time of fun in the sun in cool cottons and top-down convertibles, of air-conditioned havens in the city or breeze-cooled retreats in the country, of long weekends and skeleton staffs, of foaming beer, dripping ice cream, and dads in funny aprons presiding over barbecues. After Labor Day means back to work, back to school, back to the kitchen...
...Clock. The larger clubs, with many facilities and correspondingly high overhead, have had to fight hard to stay in the black. Boston's Algonquin Club is down to 950 members from its customary 1,000, is closed on Sundays during the summer months, and operates with a skeleton staff on Saturdays. Philadelphia's University Club, founded in 1881, filed a petition of bankruptcy in July. Many of the members will join the Penn Athletic Club on a special cut-rate basis-thereby, perhaps, saving it from a similar fate...