Word: pets
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Many businessmen would probably be happy to receive more goods than they ordered, so long as they did not have to pay money for them. Not René Debruyne, a grain and pet dealer in Lille. When his shipment arrived at the port of Dunkirk, he refused to accept custody. He had ordered 20,000 turtles, and his Moroccan supplier had generously thrown in an extra 5,000-but the shipment had arrived three months late. "The summer holidays are approaching," Debruyne explained, "and I couldn't dispose of that many turtles...
...weeks after their arrival, the customs authorities finally auctioned off the turtles to a seafood wholesaler near Paris for the bargain price of $2,200. Though pet lovers were worried at the news of this ominous sale, a company spokesman last week issued a calming statement: "These aren't the kind of sea turtles that go into soup. We are selling them to children, and we have already sold 8,000. By next week we will have sold 10,000. I can reassure everyone that this turtle story has a happy ending...
Cranky and ingenious, exasperating and entertaining, The Tender Carnivore and the Sacred Game may not quite make it as the gospel of salvation of the season. But it is as hard to put down as a caveman's pet club. Shepard scants no claims for his cureall. Hunting will end war-because hunters "do not make war." Hunting will stamp out heart disease; the anxious jogger is only miming the chase. You can bet that the hunter has no trouble with his sex life either. Shepard goes lyrical about the connection between the kill and the orgasm...
...there any other minorities Shepard has not offended in glorifying the hunter? He accuses pet lovers of "neurotic zoophilia," adding that history's "more fully mature men" have always tended to eat dogs "whenever they can." Antivivisectionists take note...
...about investment policy, but it clearly did not jive with Bok's method of handling a political crisis. And the report's chief proponent, Bennett, while a good financial manager, undoubtedly did not jive either. He voted against nearly all of the resolutions considered this Spring by Bok's pet committee, the Advisory Committee on Shareholder Responsibilities, a body formed in the aftermath of Mass Hall to aid the Corporation in deciding how to vote Harvard's proxies...