January 30, 1979

article on controversy over origin of bipedalism since discovery of new species; new theory postulates that bipedalism emerged as result of advent of nuclear family, extensive food sharing and more or less continuous sexual availability of males and females in 'pair bonding'; species discoverers White and Johanson illus; drawing (L)

Article on honors programs set up by publicly supported univs to serve students capable of doing work at more selective univs; programs are viewed as answer to soaring tuitions at top univs and declining standards at others; charges of elitism and financial problems noted; illus (M)

Amer Express Co raises its offer for McGraw-Hill to $40 a share, contingent on end to what it describes as co's 'scorched earth' policy aimed at preventing takeover; new offer is outlined in lr from Amer Express chmn James D Robinson 3d to McGraw-Hill dirs; $40 price lifts total value of tender offer to almost $1 billion; McGraw stockholder Maxwell M Geffen says if $40 offer is made it should be presented to stockholders (M)

Pope addresses 15,000 Indian inhabitants of town of Cuilapan, Mex; pledges to act as voice of poor and oppressed; he is cheered by tens of thousands on his return to Oaxaca; celebrates mass in city cathedral, then ordains 10 Indians as priests; illus (L)

Lee A Iacocca, former Ford Motor Co pres and present chief operating officer and pres of Chrysler Corp, agrees to submit to detailed interrogation by Fed prosecutors probing allegations that Ford paid bribes to Indonesian officials; case revd (M)