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...come here [Oona's] for the silk underwear," said Gabrielle Ross, a Cambridge resident. "You can't get it anywhere else for five dollars...
...British Explorer John Ross arrived in Greenland and gave Arctic nomads their first good look at a qallunaaq, a "big eyebrows." In turn, Ross and his seamen gazed on squat Asians wearing bearskin pants. Outsiders called them Eskimos, a derivation from the derogatory Cree Indian word meaning "eaters of raw meat." They simply called themselves Inuit, human beings, a distinction born not of racial arrogance, but of fact. For centuries, the only other walking mammals that most polar natives met used four legs or flippers. The Inuit were built like nature's thermos bottles, with short arms and legs...
MARRIED. Steven Ross, 55, high-wattage chairman of Warner Communications and, by some counts, the nation's best-paid corporate boss, with a $22.5 million package last year; and Film Producer Courtney Sale, 34; he for the third time, she for the first; in New York City. A galaxy of stellar friends-including Gary Grant, Pele, Steven Spielberg and the feuding Barbara Walters and Frank Sinatra-came out to twinkle at the newlyweds...
Reported by Sandra Burton and Ross H. Munro/ Hong Kong
...ironies of Mississippi have forever baffled the outsider, as they should. Two and a half years after Meredith's admission, Governor Ross Barnett's principal antagonist of that time, Bobby Kennedy, gave the commencement address at Ole Miss. He was introduced by Senator Jim Eastland and received a standing ovation. Twelve years after the event, Ben Williams, also of Yazoo City, the first black football player at Ole Miss, was elected Colonel Rebel by the student body, the highest honor for a male student. (He is now with the Buffalo Bills.) More recently, Mississippi's Leontyne Price...