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Show THURSDAY. PAGE 10 APRIL 8. 1976 GIVE UP THE CORSET So The Whales Can Live! to Now that there's no market for whalebone corsets, and oils for soaps, cosmetics, polishes, and other items are available elsewhere, whales may yet survive. But a man who has spent as much time as anyone studying and observing the : ' y , - ' ' ' 4 - 'v s 'iW " Vs v; , Crinkle Cotton world's largest animals, feels it is still touch and go. Zoologist Roger Payne points out that right whales, For Juniors once hunted almost to extinction, have been protected in recent years under an agreement signed by 14 nations. Yet a population that once numbered in the tens of thousands has dwindled to "perhaps fewer than 1,500 individuals, Dr. Payne reports in the March National Geographic. - by Vick A The Pioneer Look patchwork trim embroidered pineffor. he BELIEVES two factors are behind the whales slow rate' of recovery: A few countries that did not sign the international pact are still free to hunt the animals; Vaughn By Dm and Jm Bartleti Nil land Biographic , SPORTING GIANT, a right whale hurls its bulk from the water off Patagotaias bleak, desert coast in the South Atlantic. Dr. Roger Payne, a New York zoologist, found the mammals to be gregarious and playful, but almost never agressive. M-t- at Keith Exclusively O Briens and some female right whales may calve only mice in three years. Dr. Payne has been studying right whales off Argenti- - nas Patagonian coast for, five years, with support from the National Geographic Society and the New York ' Zoological Society. He explains that the spec- - ies was given its name by whaling men in the 19th century. To them, this was the 'right' whale to hunt because it swims slowly, has an unusually rich store of baleen, or whalebone, and floats when dead, he writes. The scientist was impressed by the gentleness and n playfulness of the creatures and notes: "Perhaps the most surprising yet ' persistent feature of life in a hear 'of right whales is peacefulness. Cool & Comfortable ' ' Part 0 The' Spirit Of America Of i Collection At Keith 0 Briens. 40-to- i t K0B has a good selection of new spring dresses in both WHERE OTHER animals will nip, kick, or slap their obstreperous offspring. Dr. Payne never saw whales lose patience with the high jinks of their young. I have watched many a r short- styles, A long 4 . 1 ABOUT 20,000 HOMES 7 COUNTIES IN 2 STATES . I TOO! Why Don't You Give Us A Try? coll: 3 AN: 563-590- 0 TREM0NT0H: MONTPELIER: 257-551- 3 ARE ' '. V 5 i''-(- . , PRESTON: : ' . V ,. - . , w , . . 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Hosiery Purses Trench Styles $14 t -J- Knee High Opaque Virginia, Pennsvl-vania- , New York, Ohio, Kentucky, and North Carolina. 4,800.000 CALORIES Department. A - $Q99 ' Variety Of y ; $15 Handbags Ref. iculture's Forest Service $13 - . New Spring Only Handbag ustin Wide about - Group Styles! BIG FOREST manages acres, an the land Virginia. - Department take-hom- Odd . M f He saw the whales raise THIS SERVICE! LOG t '. . '.. . . their massive tails out of the sea and use the broad flukes as sails, setting them at right angles to the prevailing THEY LIKE IT G .!.' V . game. RECEIVER : j hole with its tail, breaching against her repeatedly, but-tin- g into her flank, he .'. records. The strongest reaction alV this ever evoked from any indulgent mother was some- - j times to roll onto her back ; and embrace the infant in . her armlike flippers, holding it until it calms down. Dr. Payne was startled to discover that a favorite pastime among whales of all ages is sailing. "As far as we know, they are the only marine creatures, other than some jellyfish, that use the wind for . propulsion," he says. "Right whales, however, do it as a . Inn t to24tt. . . I v- . J . ! calf boisterously playing about its resting mother for ' hours at a time, sliding off her flukes, wriggling up onto her back, covering her blow- - - ; - . Sizes from 3 , , 29T 27" Wide - Reg. $119 Diaper Flannel ' Reg. $2.49 ike |