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...course. Chimpanzees used rocks to break open hard-shelled food, sticks to feed on termites and ants, and leaves for wiping their bodies and drinking. A gorilla had been seen pulling fruit to within its grasp by means of a crooked branch. The sea otter used rocks for opening shellfish. And Galapagos woodpecker finches probed insects from holes with short twigs...
...most open differences are in the approach to the Sabbath and dietary laws. Both are rigidly observed by the Orthodox, who eat no pork or shellfish and normally refuse to ride to the synagogue on the Sabbath. The Conservatives can drive on the Sabbath and, while they view the dietary laws as binding, do not observe them so strictly as the Orthodox. Reform Jews, of course, have no dietary proscriptions, treat the Sabbath much as Christians now treat Sunday. With the growth of suburbia and the resultant distances be tween homes and synagogues, however, more Orthodox Jews are driving...
...Traveller in Rome and A Traveller in Italy, Luigi Barzini's The Italians, and a clutch of Moravia novels. Another species of Experience Maximizer is represented by Washington's Laughlin Phillips, a former State Department officer, who during shore vacations in Maryland cracks nothing but shellfish and books on shellfish...
...days when pennies were marked with a cross so that shoppers could divide them into fourths-or farthings. But its buying power has steadily dwindled, and by 1900 the farthing was already a children's coin -good only for a single sourball or a few winkles (non-U shellfish) at the seaside...
Disarrayed Traffic. But all that is in the past. A shy and scholarly man, Hirohito is happier dissecting shellfish than chatting with workers. The seven top court chamberlains found it relatively easy to rebuild the Chrysanthemum Curtain that has traditionally walled off the Emperor from his subjects. When, occasionally, Hirohito grew restive at the silken bonds, the chamberlains were ready with smooth explanations. Did the Emperor wish to browse in a Tokyo bookstore? They warned that "such a visit would put the booksellers to great expense and trouble, and would also disarray traffic." Did he wish to visit a sick...