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Beetle-Browed Brute. Johanson's conclusion is bound to cause controversy in the scientific community. Most anthropologists have been convinced that the first member of the genus Homo, or true man (as opposed to the hominids, or man-apes), was a beetle-browed, stoop-shouldered brute called Homo erectus, who appeared in Africa about a million or so years ago. But two years ago, Richard Leakey, following in the footsteps of his famed anthropologist father, the late Louis B. Leakey, undermined that theory. Digging near Kenya's Lake Rudolf, he uncovered fragments that were assembled into a nearly...
...mayonnaise on their venison," as Johnny Carson once said) goes no further. Dad (Jack Elam) is a shaggy boozer with an itchy foot and no talent at all for drawing uplifting morals from life's little disasters. "Hard work gives a man character-and a slight stoop," he says. Mom is dead, and the head of the family is Truckie (Gary Busey) a 24-year-old high school dropout who is more admired by his siblings because he has done time for "grand theft, auto" than for his efforts to raise them respectably while completing his self-reformation...
...next evening at 5:20 p.m., swarms of undergraduates besieged the Yard to attend the Gabriellesque shriek. None was forthcoming, and perched on a Wigglesworth stoop, Young smiled and grunted his satisfaction. By next week, however, Young's plan was torpedoed by hordes of freshman imitators who clambered up among the gargoyles at the appointed hour, to wreak their own vocal havoc. Another crisis was at hand, as the oral abominations of the mimics were now desolating the Yard and the tell-tale grade-point average was dipping again. On a cold night, again at 3:30 a.m., Young once...
...York paper. That expectation is hardly an unreasonable one. It is clear that Jones is right about what the Hunt profile really indicates. The memo is more evidence of the Nixon administration's perversity, its unconcern for the processes of justice, its self-conscious and evil willingness to stoop to the pernicious tactics of the red scare. The memo is evidence of a certain sickness of mind and of a cynicism that Nixon has based his entire career on. Because the memo is all of those things, The Times had a right and an obligation to publish...
...Communist nations? They might correct their views if they get a chance to hear an authority like John Fairbank at a televised Senate hearing, as they did in the midst of the Vietnamese War; but in general, there seems to be little opportunity or desire among Harvard scholars to stoop to the business of popularizing in order to correct public misinformation, or even to find out in any detail what that misinformation...