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...also liked to dine off heron, coot en cocotte, boar and sautéed squirrel ("An exquisite taste"). At times a puckish humor overcame Lautrec. His recipe for leg of lamb, for instance, required "a glacier like the Wildstrubel. Kill a young lamb from the high Alps at around 3,000 meters, during September. Cut out the leg and let it hang for three or four weeks. It should be eaten raw with horse-radish...
...island off Alaska five years ago, still stands there, a monument on a 30-foot pedestal of ice (see cut). In 1946, a DC-3 flew into a Swiss Alp, inflicting minor injury on itself and passengers, who disembarked. Thereupon, the plane sank out of sight into a glacier's soft snow. The thrifty Swiss calculate that the glacier, moving ponderously down the mountain, will discharge its cold-frozen possession six centuries hence-presumably in flyable condition...
...Hooray for Bishop Pike! As an Episcopalian, I am happy to learn that one bishop recognizes that the ecclesiastical talents of women are not limited to sitting in a pew. East Glacier, Mont., seems an unlikely place for a thaw in "God's frozen people," but Bishop Pike has managed to break...
...balsam. For opposed to every conservationist cause there is always the need of those from whom the land is being saved. Steel manufacturers, for example, have discovered that the most efficient sites for their plants are near water transportation. One such location is the Indiana Dunes, a strip of glacier-formed beach, sand dunes and marshland running along Indiana's Lake Michigan coast from Gary to Michigan City. For 50 years conservationists have seethed as the dunes have been bitten away by steel companies. This year the Senate finally passed a compromise bill (House action is pending) incorporating...
Before he became a priest of the Episcopal Church, San Francisco's Bishop James A. Pike was a lawyer. Last week, at a meeting of the House of Bishops in East Glacier, Mont., Pike showed that he still has his old court room skill. The 142 assembled prelates considered two issues in which he was attorney for the defense. Pike won one case and established significant precedents in the other...