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...topic of Professor Romer's talk has been changed from "Bone Hunting in Texas--of all places" to "Fosall Hunting in South Africa--of all places." From the Kirkland House bulletin board...
Yesterday his investigations revealed the bone-picked carcasses of over 70 pigeons, slain by a huge chicken hawk...
More than any other sport, the basic philosophy of skiing demands incredible, child-like belief in self-torture. From the first day of a skiing career when one learns how to permanently twist his legs through a stop known as the "herring-bone" to the day when he finally succeeds in relieving himself by breaking them off leaping from a 60 meter jump, the skiier must be firmly convinced that permanent mutilation is not too severe a price to pay for a few days on the slopes...
...test a machete, a Colombian campesino sticks the point into a wooden floor and bends the bladedouble. If the heavy knife springs back upright, the countryman is satisfied that it is good. If it has a bone handle and nickel-plate finish besides, the customer cannot get his money out fast enough...
...first-name thousands of people; he rarely forgets a face. His memory is so photographic that he sometimes startles' his secretary by recalling verbatim a letter dictated years before. Before he lets a staffer make a sales presentation to a prospective client, Duffy insists that he bone up on every pertinent fact of the client's business...