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...Woman of Means, Peter Taylor wrote a mature and modest first book about a difficult boy-stepmother relationship. Hans Ruesch tried an offbeat background and brought off a vivid story of Eskimo manners & morals in Top of the World. Most polished of the preciousness school novels was A Long Day's Dying, by Frederick Buechner, a 23-year-old disciple of Henry James. There was nothing precious about young (24) John Hawkes's The Cannibal, a sometimes powerful experimental novel that tried to capture the nightmarish quality of Germany's disintegration in defeat. The Harper Prize...
...Meen estimated that the meteorite must have fallen at least 3,000 years ago, since there are no Indian or Eskimo legends about it. He named it Chubb Crater after the sharp-eyed prospector, and promised that a full-dress expedition would report on it within a year...
Because polio is usually a warm-weather disease of temperate zones, doctors jumped at the chance to study a polio outbreak two winters ago among Eskimos at deep-frozen Chesterfield Inlet, in Canada's Northwest Territories just below the Arctic Circle. One striking fact was soon evident: though infants under three got polio just as older children and adults did, none of the infants suffered the devastating paralytic stage of the disease. And the infants up to three years old, following local Eskimo custom, were still being nursed at their mothers' breasts...
...Among Eskimo tribes elsewhere, older children are occasionally breastfed. Explorer Peter Freuchen saw an Eskimo mother in Greenland nursing a full-grown...
During his 18 years there, the priest succeeded in converting most of the 350 members of the Netsilik tribe to Christianity. One day Father Henri saw the bodies of three newborn girls abandoned in the snow: this was the Eskimos' traditional way of solving their surplus population problem. Father Henri arranged for Eskimo parents to get the Canadian baby bonus, usually in the form of hunting supplies. Now the practice of infanticide has virtually disappeared among the Netsilik...