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...Munich, Germany, a small herd of short-maned, pony-sized horses grazed contentedly last week. Fine-boned and broad-skulled, with mouse-grey coats and zebra-striped legs, they look for all the world like tarpans, the fierce wild horses that Roman legionnaires found in Spain. But tarpans are extinct: the last herds vanished in the 19th century, after ranging eastward to the steppes of the Ukraine...
From Insteps to Step-Ins. Witty talk and romantic flirtations were supposed to be Bar Harbor's specialties. Nowadays, old-fashioned flirting is extinct, and the colony's Alice Van Rensselaer thinks she knows why: "The granddaughter of the girl who wouldn't show her instep now shows her step-ins." And so it goes. Palm Beach, Saratoga, the Berkshires. the Virginia springs-they aren't what they used to be, chants Author Amory...
...feminine sweaters and skirts require pretty, polished shoes--and certainly no sneakers. Classrooms are in for a new era of neat loafers and slim low pumps, or the handsome British shoes and their imitations now flooding the market. Stockings are important; the woolly anklets take their place with the extinct Great...
...Young Progressives are fighting against time. With the elections three weeks away, the club--now officially extinct after two years of sputtering existence--must secure immediate University recognition to be able to campaign in the College for the Progressive Party candidates and platform...
There is a big fight in the tree-world. Two professors are waging a bitter war over a fast-growing tree, believed extinct for many millions of years...