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Clearing the Cabin. Coddling of passengers goes just so far, though, and the airlines have yet to devise baggage rules that keep everybody happy. Because too many people have been sneaking aboard with everything from caged pets to rubber trees and stuffed elk heads, the FAA last month flatly prohibited carry-on luggage too big to fit beneath seats (which generally accommodate packages 9 in. high, 13 in. wide, 23 in. long). As one result, American Airlines has stocked O'Hare Airport in Chicago with hundreds of cardboard containers for items plucked from their customers' arms. As another...
John Holme (1686) Hunters like to dream of what it must have been like in the old days, when herds of buffalo grazed the Western plains, when virgin glades were thick with elk and wild fowl. Game, they complain, is disappearing in the face of pollution, deforestation-and competition from the 17,999,999 other Nim-rods out there blazing away...
...probably too late for the grizzly bear, the elk and other species, with the possible exception of the Norway rat, who was clever enough to adapt. If so, it's too late for mankind. Encroachment by civilization is perverting the wilderness just as man is being perverted in response to the environment he's made for himself. Let's all take our about-to-be confiscated hunting rifles and kill the grizzlies in Glacier, but do it to save them the misery of choking on the wave of pollution that's bound...
...George Skakel Jr., 44, brother of Ethel Kennedy and head, since their parents' death in a plane crash, of the family-controlled Great Lakes Carbon Corp. (1965 sales: an estimated $125 million); with four other men (including onetime Kennedy Aide Dean Markham) in a plane crash during an elk-hunting trip; near Riggins, Idaho...
...much does a hippopotamus hamburger cost? Who cares? Except maybe Billy Casper, who figures that the wilder the chow the better his golf. So he occasionally tries hippo (at $2.49 a lb.), and regularly downs elk ($1.49), bear ($2.25), moose ($1.98) and buffalo ($1.89). There must be something in it. Last week Casper was the only man on this year's P.G.A. tour to have cracked $100,000 in official winnings. He thus joined the late Tony Lema, who turned the trick in 1965, Arnold Palmer, who did it in '63 and '64, and Jack Nicklaus...