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Being alone and unprotected in the wilds does pose a few hazards, however. In Florida Bartram went through one hurricane so strong that huge liveoak branches flew about in the air as if they were mere "leaves and stubble." Bartram also records that he has met venomous snakes: the "bastard rattle snake" and the "large and horrid" moccasin, which has a bite that is "always incurable." He has seen wolves, bears and wildcats too, but to date the only creature that has actually threatened his life is the Florida alligator...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: Wonders of the Wilds | 7/4/1976 | See Source »

...testified that both Callan and McKenzie had forced a group of Roberto's troops to strip naked. The witness claimed that Callan said, "When I count one, two, three−run"−and that both the colonel and McKenzie had opened fire on the fleeing men. "Lying bastard," growled McKenzie from his wheelchair in the dock...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ANGOLA: Rough Justice At a Show Trial | 6/28/1976 | See Source »

...suddenly being bought up by European museums. Som-boonsuk Niyomsiri, one of Bangkok's foremost poster painters, has gone on to become Thailand's biggest film producer−under the name of Piak Poster. His latest movie, American Surplus, deals with the discrimination suffered by the bastard offspring of black American GIs stationed in Thailand during the Viet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Asia's Bouncing World of Movies | 6/28/1976 | See Source »

...dumb because he was left in the forest, he was left in the forest because he was deaf and dumb," they said, and one rumor had Victor the illegitimate son of a provincial notaire who cast him into the woods to avoid the social embarrassment of raising a retarded bastard...

Author: By Mark T. Whitaker, | Title: A Noble Savage? | 6/2/1976 | See Source »

...chaotic affairs. Lennon, in the meantime, had met up with Allen Klein, a free-swinging wheeler-dealer who once sent out Christmas cards with this greeting: "Yea though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, because I'm the biggest bastard in the valley...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: McCartney Comes Back | 5/31/1976 | See Source »

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