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...schooled only in tradition. Their courtly language lacks pronouns-Papik refers to himself as "a man" -and the same selflessness marks their customs. "Be one!" Papik says, urging another hunter to share his wife. In fact, Inuit share everything from basic emotion to their most irresistible delicacy-a violet paste made of bird slime, seal guts, maggoty meat, rotten blubber and premasticated birds. Papik's father deliberately wounds himself to make his injured son less lonely in his pain...
People were not buying as much meat in restaurants, some of which offered meatless menus. There were occasional unrepentant carnivores. At La Goulue, a new Manhattan restaurant where the chic meet to eat, Salvador Dali, Andy Warhol, Ultra Violet and Candy Darling feasted on lamb chops one afternoon last week. But at a nearby table Prince Rainier and Princess Grace of Monaco observed the boycott by lunching on salad...
...took two firsts and a fourth in the three weapons to edge Lvy League champion Penn by a slim point for the team title. Violet sabreman Peter Westbrook, undefeated during the entire three-day tournament, easily won the sabre title, and teammate Risto Hurme grabbed the epee championship with an impressive 21-2 bouting record...
Harvard, which swept through its first three matches in impressive fashion, found the Violet team that journeyed up from the Big Apple a far cry from the SMU's and MIT's that the Crimson had preyed on before the Big Sleep...
...best performance of the match--and in fact, the only positive performance of the afternoon--came from freshman John Wilinsky. Wilinsky, put in as a third round substitution, decisively put away Violet number two man Phillip Accaria...