Word: arens
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...firm also insures dogs, cats, hogs, sheep, turkeys ("very hazardous because they're so vulnerable to changes in the weather," says Harding), mules, ponies, lions, tigers, monkeys, walruses ("We lost two of those damn things"), seals, elephants, gazelles and giraffes ("We have to make certain that their necks aren't bent during shipment"). They once insured a pink porpoise ("He survived nicely"), and they currently have a four-month policy on a pair of white rhinos at $5,000 each...
Harding and Tomson hope some day to make Animal Livestock a worldwide business; but for all their readiness to assume risks, they draw the line at such freaks as two-headed pigs and six-legged dogs. "Deformed animals aren't good physical risks," says Frank Harding, "and besides, it isn't dignified...
...average hotel bill still more. "If the IRS rules remain as stringent as they are now, it'll murder us roomwise," worries Manager Ed Crowley of Los Angeles' Sheraton-West. "Guests who usually bring their wives or stay an extra day or two themselves just aren't doing it anymore...
...hockey team, sparked by Tim Taylor, Gene Kinasewich, and All-American Dave Johnston, surprised no one by winning the Ivy title, but the season ended with a disappointing third place finish in the ECAC turnament. 1962 was definitely not the year for Harvard basketball, although most years aren't. The wrestlers grunted magnificently, but produced few victories...
...Baker children arrived at Charlotte airport last week and met their new parents, brothers and sisters for the first time. "If those children were put in the world together, they should stay together," said Jean Meyers, who deprecated suggestions that she was doing a wonderful thing. "We aren't being wonderful," she insisted. ''We need children. We want these children. We are going to have a lot of fun." Then the Meyers family unbelievably squeezed into a single car and drove home to get ready for Christmas...