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Loading Up. If he is wise, the camper with a new tent will set it up first in his own backyard, cook a little something on his stove, light his lantern and pump up his air mattress. "Everyone should do his staff work before he starts out," says Yellowstone National Park Superintendent Lemuel Garrison. "Too many people think they have inherited Daniel Boone's knowledge as well as his spirit. They haven...
...trail to Leigh Lake. From there, they rowed better than two miles to the foot of a snow-splotched mountain on the western shore, hacked out the underbrush, laid down a floor of pine boughs, and put up their tent. By nightfall they had a campfire blazing (disdaining such backyard aids as starter fuel), and ate corn roasted in the husk, ash-baked potatoes, hamburgers, cold beer (iced in the lake) and hot coffee...
...have yet to toss beer bottles (Schlitz is sold during games), but as the home team was getting trimmed (12-6) by the Boca Raton (Fla.) Royal Palms, when Captain Uihlein overrode the ball, one grandstand customer bellowed: "You bum! I don't care if this is your backyard! Why don't you take your bats and balls and go home...
...SEATO headquarters building to deliver a blunt statement. "It is sometimes difficult to understand how a man-or a nation-can treasure liberty for himself," said Johnson, his voice sharpening as he spoke, "and be totally unconcerned for it when it involves other people in his own backyard." The Thais were delighted by Johnson's pointed criticism of the go-gently approach of SEATO partners France and Britain to opposing Communism in Southeast Asia-a criticism that directly reflected the views of President Kennedy...
During the early decades of the 20th century, the U.S. swung to the opposite extreme in its own Caribbean backyard, intervening in Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Haiti and Nicaragua. Paradoxically, these interventions strengthened the principle of nonintervention. After Franklin Roosevelt proclaimed the Good Neighbor policy, Latin American nations persuaded the U.S. to sign ever-stronger pledges of nonintervention. The Charter of the Organization of American States, drafted at Bogota in 1948, declares that "no State or group of States has the right to intervene, directly or indirectly, for any reason whatsoever, in the internal or external affairs of any other...