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That menacing wasp on the cover and the other pesky bugs pictured and written about in this week's cover story have bewitched, bothered or bitten Senior Editor Leon Jaroff, who edited the story, for quite some time. "My most bitter bug experience was in 1956," recalls Jaroff. "On assignment in Labrador for LIFE magazine I had to go through dense bush to get to Grand Falls. It was the height of the blackfly season, and I returned with 500 bites on my body. For 20 years, I've waited to get even...
...pointed toward Petersburg, Mich., some 20 miles southeast. Fringe-topped surreys and jerry-built vehicles of varying durability fill out the party. The passengers are instant minor celebrities in each small town they pass. Villagers look, wave, offer plates of homemade cookies and other food, and sometimes get bitten by the bug and join up. The historic sort of leisure exerts a unique pull on the mind. Wagonmaster Keith Kreykes, 52, a cook, in the course of the journey has headed up as many as 48 wagons carrying up to 150 people. "You forget what...
...national parks, in the roadside inns and amusement parks, in the still of the night, 10 million kids are going to upchuck their french fries, 5 million more will smear their cones into Daddy's nose while he is driving, numerous unruly teen-agers will get themselves bitten in the behind by surly bears gone berserk amid the frenzy of Yosemite, dozens of tennis foursomes will never speak to one another again, hundreds of budding romances will expire into a heap, mothers-in-law will weep, the divorce rate will leap, and in the end, home will never look...
...pursuit of the liberal arts ideal, Harvard has bitten into the pomegranate of knowledge and spit the seeds into a dozen far-flung bureaucratic boxes, letting most of the juice dribble away. Ec 10 pokes tentatively into the other boxes from time to time, but Harvard's departmentalization won't let it go too far. As a result, Ec 10 is not a course on the American economy nor does it claim to be. It teaches instead one particular branch of one particular discipline...
...right away it's clear that Salisbury has bitten off a mouthful, and he says so himself. Even the landscape--even what he sees from his airplane window--seems too big and varied to be understood in a few glib paragraphs, and so all Salisbury offers is his own personal view of America, an account of one person's journey to the burning heart of the American dream. "I have not tasted all the strata of our 215,000,000 lives," he says...