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...mind last week: forming a government. He was having a far harder time than expected in bargaining with his three potential partners, all small and conservative religious parties, to get the support he needed. Begin brought up the difficulty in an unusual setting in Tel Aviv. Wearing a black skullcap and sweating under the bright lights, he stood before an audience of the National Bible Quiz, a sort of Israeli College Bowl for scholars of the Old Testament. After telling the group how hard he had been working to try to put a new government together, the Prime Minister declared...
...heavy drinking at 15, the heroin addiction at 25, the two broken marriages, the ten years in hospitals, prisons and other institutions, the illness and waste and frequent despair. But they could see some of its ravages in Pepper's face, which was taut and sallow under his skullcap haircut, almost a death mask. And they could hear some of its pain in the soulful, impassioned solos that Pepper poured out when he picked up his alto...
...Neander Valley outside the German city of D?sseldorf, showed that at least one of man's probable ancestors (later named Neanderthal man) had a low, sloping forehead, a receding chin, and thick ridges over his eye sockets. Java man, discovered by a Dutch doctor who found a skullcap, or cranium, in 1891 and a thighbone in 1892, was obviously an even earlier, less evolved specimen than Neanderthal. Teeth, a nearly complete skullcap and bone fragments discovered in a cave at Choukoutien, China, during the 1920s established the existence of yet another early ancester, Peking man.* These discoveries helped...
...even closer than his bond with Vienna. "I would convert to Judaism," he often quips, "if the operation didn't hurt so much"-but he claims that he follows his own faith devoutly. When Barenboim married Jacqueline Du Pre in Israel last summer, Mehta flew over, donned a skullcap and prayer shawl, and joined the Orthodox Jewish ceremony as "Moishe Cohen." The officiating rabbi became suspicious because Mehta did not speak Hebrew. "I'm a Persian Jew," Mehta explained to him, "and we don't speak Hebrew." After the other guests had chanted Hasidic songs...
Lizards & "Wurleys." The flat-nosed Aborigine, with his receding forehead and his skin burned bluish black by the sun, may be slow to respond to such unaccustomed attention. He is unrelated to any of the world's three major races. Some anthropologists, noting that his skullcap is much thicker and his brain cavity 20% smaller than that of European man, suggest that he is the last survivor of the primordial primates who succeeded Neanderthal man some 20,000 years...