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Richards still lives in La Verne, keeps physically fit by jogging five miles a day, exercising on his backyard trampoline or riding his palomino stallion Sun Up. The garden of his $50,000 ranch-style home is equipped with a pole-vaulting rig, and Richards claims he can still clear his best competition height of 15 ft. 6 in. He also has other interests. He owns an 8,000-acre ranch in Colorado and a film studio-an abandoned Methodist church-in La Verne...
...Backyard Beginnings. The birder must be physically fit to slog through swamps, intellectually alert to recognize the innumerable species he might encounter, keen enough to thrill at the sight of a great blue heron overhead. But what gets him started in the first place? "We began watching birds in our backyard," explains Seismologist James Ellis. "Then we didn't recognize a bird, so we bought a cheap book. Then there were more birds, so we bought a more expensive book. It kind of grabs you after a while." It grabbed San Francisco's Raymond Higgs so hard that...
...success is all the more remarkable because it is virtually plotless. A suburban husband (Walter Matthau) decides that the grass is greener and the lass keener in the other fellow's backyard. A colleague with a wandering eye (Robert Morse) nominates himself as Matthau's instructor in the arcane rules of high-infidelity. Like most modern teachers, Morse goes in for visual aids: every time he makes a pedantic point the screen lights up with a lively sketch from life, featuring 13 stars in cameo roles as "technical advisers...
...outside Hanoi, where the North Vietnamese are training 150 Thais at a time. Like Pak Chong, Hoa Binh is a school for boondocks warfare. There, the North Vietnamese teach Communist Thais the arts of weaponry, propaganda and sabotage before sending them back to make trouble in Bangkok's backyard...
...jail for doing it), relic collecting carries even more dangerous potential, for some of the shells dug up are still explosive. There is a cherished story among relic seekers about a South Carolina woman who for years had used four 100-lb. Union shells as a stand for her backyard washtub until one day one exploded, blasting wet clothes all over the neighborhood...