Word: wolfe
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...only incident resembling a demonstration during Ford's two-week stay was a one-man protest vigil staged by Ruffin Harris of Carbondale, Colo. He stood in front of Millionaire Richard Bass's palace where Ford was staying. Harris held a live wolf on a leash to protest Ford's Christmas gift of a wolfskin coat to his wife...
...protagonist of Steppenwolf, the book's readers will recall, is Harry Haller, a writer enraptured with despair. He plans suicide, if only he can work himself up to it. He is also schizoid: he sees himself as both a bourgeois and a fierce maverick, a prowling, implacable wolf of the steppes. An encounter with a beautiful young woman of mystery, Hermine (Dominique Sanda), brings him the chance of reconciling the shards of his psyche...
...this winter. Can the risks of skiing be reduced? Ski-school directors and designers of ski equipment have long argued that better instruction and improved equipment could cut the injury rate considerably. Three doctors from the Boston School of Medicine question this. Drs. Joshua Gutman, Jonathan Weisbuch and Milton Wolf write in the A.M.A. Journal that despite better equipment and training, the injury rate for skiers has changed little, if at all, in twelve years. What has changed is the nature of ski injuries...
...Fish and Wildlife Service, Department of the Interior, lists between 5,000 and 10,000 as the population of wolves in Alaska. The Government and all conservationists consider the wolf extremely vulnerable to human pressures (e.g., killing for fur). I do not believe that President Ford would purposely exploit a threatened species; however, the example he has set by accepting and wearing a coat made from wolf fur is extremely harmful to the remnant of the population of wolves in Alaska. We have requested that the President make a public statement denouncing the exploitation of wildlife for the sake...
...Marlin Perkins, The Wild Canid Survival and Research Center, Wolf Sanctuary, St. Louis