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...Pleshey in Essex, solid ranks of warriors confront each other. Above the castle flies the White Rose of the House of York; across the field the wind whips the Red Rose banners of Lancaster. A flight of Lancastrian arrows reaches Yorkist ranks and the battle is on. Sweaty long-bowmen in the front lines loose their shafts; behind them, -dismounted, armored knights prepare themselves. The field is alive with cries of pain and anger and the untidy flow...
Last week the Michigan bow-hunting season was in full swing, and Bear was among the 60,000 bowmen stalking the wily whitetail. The deer were in little danger; while one in four gun hunters bags a whitetail each season, only one in 20 bow hunters is successful. Reducing the odds further, Bear chose to hunt on St. Martin Island, an uninhabited, densely wooded patch in Lake Huron that stands as a kind of moated fortress of the whitetail. Associate Editor Ray Kennedy joined Bear. His report...
Both these Russian bowmen have be come dedicated Californians; Los Angeles, they feel, will become the future cultural center of the U.S. "New York has been too casual about its cultural responsibilities," says Heifetz. Both live in swimming-pooled, tennis-courted luxury: Heifetz in a modern, gadget-strewn hilltop house in Beverly Hills, Piatigorsky in a rambling white frame mansion in nearby Brentwood...
...Hundred Years' War between France and confident, aggressive England. Vastly outnumbered, superior English bowmen win Battle...
...course the note turns out to be no joke, and one fine sunny day, during an air-raid drill, an ocean-going tug chugs past the Statue of Liberty, and 20 mailclad bowmen make a beachhead in lower Manhattan. They move inland through deserted streets and occupy a scientific institute-where, as it happens, Dr. Alfred Kokintz, the great physicist, is putting the final touches to the Q-bomb, a football-shaped object that will erase an area of 2,000,000 square miles if it ever explodes. The bowmen capture the bomb and the man who made it, take...