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ONCE UPON a time there was a game called football. Men dressed up in funny-looking knickers and leather helmets and ran around a field for 60 minutes, while college students and alumni dressed in strange-looking fur coats sat in the stands waving triangular banners and sipping brandy from pocket flasks. The game was a sporting contest between 22 men from two different colleges...
Jerry Ford put on his big fur hat and heavy coat, and ordered his retinue out into the Primorskian night where it was 10 degrees F and snowing hard. Bill Hyland, then a Ford aide and now editor of Foreign Affairs, chuckled inwardly at the bizarre spectacle of some of the world's most powerful men walking in a strange courtyard at midnight, befurred heads together like so many frozen caterpillars, clouds of steam rising from their whispers about throwweights and MIRVs...
...against the forces of environmentalism. The Canadian government announced last week that it would allow the resumption of coastal seal hunting from ships north of Newfoundland. The annual spring hunt was abandoned in 1983 after environmentalists, horrified that hunters commonly clubbed seal pups to death for their prized white fur, persuaded the European Community to ban the importation of whitecoat pelts. The U.S. had barred them a decade earlier...
Stratton is a beautiful-people-only resort. The new village, with the requisite quaint architecture and gourmet shop also boasts clothes boutiques from Bogner and CB sports. It has a certain European flavor; one almost expects fur-clad women to stroll by with their poodles...
...brilliant," said Kim I. Gutschow '88. But she added, "He wears a fur coat. I didn't think he'd have bad taste...