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...largest furriers union reached an agreement with W.W.F. to stop accepting pelts taken from spotted cats, thus ensuring that the big felines would be able to hold their own in the wilds. The members have even prevailed upon some of the world's major airlines to stop promoting safari tours on which endangered species would be killed...
...most of it in his secluded country house at Sorel-Moussel in Normandy. Nobody saw it for 40 years. Paintings were stuffed under beds, piled higgledy-piggledy in the cellar, gathered dust in cupboards. Michel preferred to adorn his walls with antelope horns and stuffed trophies of the African safaris that were his chief interest in life. Whenever he needed some cash to finance another safari, he would pull a Monet out from its storage place and sell...
Wars and other major calamities are not the only tests of the business office's adaptability. One of its tasks is the processing of expense accounts. Lucy remembers the writer on safari "who billed us for luggage eaten by a crocodile." The chit was honored, perhaps in recognition of the writer's creativity...
Last week Mrs. Werner returned-luggage uneaten-from her own month-long safari in Asia. Eager for a firsthand look at field operations, she had toured Manila, Singapore, Hong Kong and Tokyo...
Dismal End. Moriarity exists-a vague, malignant figure who represents the evil that resides in the System. Holmes, Watson and the adherents they accumulate on their safari, drunks, outcasts and youth, signify all that is good and innocent. Such a thesis has formed the basis for many successful farces, The Madwoman of Chaillot, for example. But this lunacy in Manhattan has no imagination to propel its whimsy, no language to give it breath. Goldman is a dealer in used ideas ("The Bible has it wrong-Earth is Eden!" cries Justin). Scott continues to act with impatient power, but his messages...