Word: yalemen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Leakey announced that 20 million-year-old fossils that he had discovered near Africa's Lake Victoria and dubbed Kenyapithecus africanus belonged to the earliest known manlike creature (TIME, Feb. 3, 1967). After applying their dental tests' to casts of Leakey's prehistoric fragments, the Yalemen decided that Kenyapithecus lacked the characteristics of early man. Though Leakey still insists that Kenyapithecus is a hominid, most other scientists now believe that...
...erect, eating meat as well as fruits and vegetables and was probably the first creature to make and use tools of stone.* Until recently, most paleontologists were certain that Australopithecus lived no more thar 2,000,000 years ago-or at least 6,000, 000 years after Rama. The Yalemen's discovery thus creates a huge gap in man's history between Australopithecus and Rama...
Consider the case of Ben Moseley and Pierce Jay. Both are Yalemen, both class of '42. Ben is a scholarship student from a public high school in Providence, Pierce a cosmopolitan product of the church school system. Ben is quiet, competent, dullish; he studies and plods and runs the campus laundry. Pierce is flamboyant, brilliant, a dazzler in every way; he downs his drinks with gusto, drives fast cars and is the spunky campus cutup...
...Arrigo denounced the Yale map as a "Communist plot." New Jersey's Republican Senator Clifford Case, on hand for Newark's parade curtly dismissed Ericsson as "just an upstart." Pennsylvania Supreme Court Justice Michael Musmanno, author of The Story of the Italians in America charged that the Yalemen "have gone into the moss-covered kitchen of rumor and, on the broken-down stove of wild speculation, fueled by ethnic prejudices have warmed over the stale cabbage of Leifs discovery of America." In the House, New York Democrat Benjamin Rosenthal introduced a bill to make Columbus Day a national...
...alumni elected energetic William Horowitz, 58, to be a member of the Yale Corporation. Horowitz ('29) is the first Jewish - and the first non-Protestant-elective member of the board. He is also the first successful full term candidate nominated by petition (passed on his behalf by his Yalemen son, son-in-law and brother-in-law); most candidates are nominated by an alumni committee. A banker and chairman of the Connecticut State Board of Education, Horowitz lost to New York Congressman John Lindsay in a similar election last year...