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...order of social organization. In the seas, they often aid their wounded fellows; two fin whales spotted off Canada, for example, supported a harpooned brother on their flukes for five days. In aquariums, they cooperate with-and sometimes outthink-their captors. One group of dolphins being rewarded with fish ate until sated, then continued to perform while piling the excess fish on the pool bottom. When they got bored, they simply gave the fish back to the experimenters...
They had lunch in a small, wood-paneled room off the main Varsity Club dining hall, a room with a bronzed track shoe in a glass trophy case. Restic cut his big hamburger into neat squares and ate them with his fork. Matthews put his hamburger between two slices of toast, doused it with catsup, and ate with his hands...
...snack tray. We were all served cold cut sandwiches, beer and a strong fruit juice. After eating, I walked down the aisle and talked with the rest of the students. Some were joking, trying to fight off their weariness. I looked at the dozens of boxers who slept, ate, joked, played guitars or watched us. Cuba was hosting the first World Amateur Boxing Tournament. From all over the world, boxers were coming to Cuba to fight...
...Walter Lippmann, 1969 He could have held his own in an 18th century salon or coffeehouse, spar ring civilly with the prophets of the Enlightenment. His faith in the dispassion ate application of reason to the muddle of human affairs was no less firm than Voltaire's. His prowess at drawing his tory's sweep from the minutiae of daily events might have impressed even Gibbon. Had they discoursed on politics, he and Edmund Burke would have found themselves on the same aloof Olympian plane...
...still running as a space hero; he lost in the primary to Howard Metzenbaum who was defeated by Republican Robert Taft Jr. Then Glenn sensibly undertook the business of being a politician. He ran a citizens' committee for Democratic Governor John Gilligan, chaired an environmental task force, and ate countless dinners of rubber chicken on the state political circuit. This year he beat Metzenbaum in the primary, and last week he defeated Cleveland Mayor Ralph Perk, 64% to 31%. Glenn leaves little doubt of his interest in holding a higher office or of his desire...