Word: wolfs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Born in Boston 32 years ago, Greenway graduated from Yale and filed his first story for Time Inc. as a campus stringer at Oxford. The story, for SPORTS ILLUSTRATED, was about the price of wolf's urine at the London Zoo. "It seems," he recalls, "that the Oxford drag hunt used wolf's urine for the drag and they were upset about a sudden price hike...
...years ago) fossil remains containing well-preserved collagen. Chemically analyzing the collagen in fossil specimens recovered from Los Angeles' famed La Brea tar pits, he applied his formula and calculated the temperatures of such extinct species as the browsing ground sloth, the dire wolf, the short-faced bear and the saber-toothed...
...loves-hates his rich father, a victim of all alleged Texas hang-ups, notably insecure masculinity. Mailer plunks father, son and a couple of unholy Texas ghosts in Alaska's Brooks Mountain Range on a safari in search of manhood. Naturally, they cheat: in orgiastically killing a wolf, numerous caribou and three grizzlies, the hunters unsportingly use a helicopter instead of their feet. Though he hardly clarifies his intention, Mailer apparently figures that he has thus allegorized Vietnam as a case of Texas-style Americans neurotically in love with war. The book ends with DJ. happily looking forward...
Died. Josh Bryan Lee, 75, Oklahoma Democratic Representative (1934-'36) and Senator ('36-'42), chiefly remembered as the state's most skillful spellbinder, with the single exception of Will Rogers, whose eulogy ("His humor . . . never bit like a wolf, but always like a lamb") he delivered at Rogers' funeral in 1935 and on the House floor; after a long illness; in Norman, Okla...
...move by ordering the construction of a 23-story state office building for Harlem. But New York, typically at odds with itself, is also building two 110-story skyscrapers for the World Trade Center in the Wall Street area. That is the kind of act, says Urban Critic Wolf von Eckardt, that is tantamount to "ur-bicide"-city killing...