Word: skulls
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Skull & Collarbone. Working for seven months on hands and knees, their eyes just a few inches from the ground, Leakey, his wife and his son sifted the yellow earth and painstakingly uncovered bones, using camel's hair brushes and dental picks to prevent them from breaking. They found remains of two humans-a child thought to be about eleven and an adult, both of undetermined sex. From the child, there were skull fragments, a jawbone, bones from a hand and foot and a collarbone. Left from the ancient adult were some teeth, skull fragments and a collarbone...
...camera coverage brought wide- shots of the action but missed the of an event that network TV Brooks' endless calculations, swimmer Fred Elizalde leading the "Y" shaven in the skull of freshman captain Mike Austin, and disappointment of John Pringle after butterfly...
...labor's gabby old soldiers. From the veterans' hospital bed on which he is dying, he does a flashback recall of his life as a seaman, a miner and a wobbly of the I.W.W. Mostly it is a schooling of hard knocks on his own skull, including a stretch in prison...
...find is the skull of an 11-year-old child believed to be the oldest member of the human race distinguishable from mud. The child is thought to be well over 600,000 years old, which means that he is, in plain fact, older than Nutcracker Man. Now the significance of the child is this: the distance between him and Nutcracker Man (a matter of brain capacity and degree of specialization, not to mention N.M.'s astounding molars) is clinching empirical proof that the human species has advanced steadily and with a fair degree of haste from an 11-year...
...interrupted by wild screams coming from the visitors' gallery. As Stevenson stopped and stared, some 60 Negroes burst into the gallery, scrambled down the aisle shouting "Lumumba!'' flailed wildly at the astonished guards. One woman, shrieking like a banshee, laid out a cop with a skull blow from her spike-heel shoe. It took 15 minutes to drag the screaming, kicking demonstrators outside, where they continued their demonstration on the sidewalk. Some may have been Communist, but most were merely excited members of Manhattan Negro factions. But the Communists lost no time in exploiting them; Party Secretary...