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...finally, on this particular day, the largest bear of the season would be killed, prepared and eaten by every members of the community. Each brave, squaw and papoose had his share of bear meat, of bear brain, of bear eye, of bear bone, and, for dessert, of bear's fur, cooked in a special glasse...
Should have caused such anxietal flying of fur...
...occasion was the long-postponed coronation of His Highness Chogyal (King) Palden Thondup Namgyal, Sikkim's own maharajah. Squatting on 13 gold cushions in elaborate robes and felt boots embroidered with thunderbolts, he gravely accepted a fur-brimmed crown handed him by red-robed lamas, popped it on his head and thus became King-and honorary major general in the Indian army...
Doomed Business. Author Chevigny, who has written two earlier books on Russia's American misadventure, suggests in this one that the colony was probably doomed from the start. The Czars never opened the new land to immigration. Alaska was run as a fur business, whose board members voted themselves handsome dividends and occupied a luxurious building on St. Petersburg's Moika Quai...
Still Smarting. Turning to Vice President Hubert Humphrey, the President told the council that in its efforts to fur ther medicare it would "have not only the blessings of this Administration, but the very active understanding and cooperation of this virile young Vice President. He will be here on the job working with you every minute of the day, north, south, east and west." Then, apparently still smarting from criticism for failing to send Humphrey to the funeral of Sir Winston Churchill, the President added: "If he is not out of the country attending some funeral, he will be here...