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...your instincts for survival?" the San Francisco Chronicle asked its readers three weeks ago. "Could you, an average city dweller, exist in the wilderness tomorrow with little more than your bare hands?" Having raised this nuclear-age question, the Chronicle announced that it was dubbing Outdoors Writer Harvey R. Boyd "The Last Man on Earth" and setting his entire family to a six-week survival test...
...Boyd, a paunchy 41, his wife Betty, and their children, Susan, 15, Sharon, 12, and Bruce, 8, packed into the wilds of Lower Lipstick Lake, 250 miles north of San Francisco and less than four miles from the ranch house of Boyd's friend J. D. Proctor. With them they carried salt, an ax, five knives, 50 ft. of nylon rope, toothbrushes, a ball of twine and-for emergencies-a sealed rifle, a flashlight and a first...
...Need Food." By prearrangement, Proctor picked up the first batch of Boyd copy for distribution to the 40-odd papers that had bitten on the Chronicle bait...
...lean-to is another miserable failure," noted Boyd on the second day. "We need some kind of food," he wrote on the third, telling how he fashioned Sharon's ring into a barbless hook and caught seven trout. Breathlessly, Boyd reported the discovery of a set of deer horns, a hunter's cache of cooking gear, a squirrel's cache of nuts-and described a family feast of frogs' legs provided...
...used in countries where it is produced. Of the remaining 14 million tons, more than 8,000,000 tons will be sold to nations with quota systems similar to the U.S. The remaining 6,000,000 tons, which sells at the world market price, is largely surplus sugar. Says Boyd MacNaughton, president of C. Brewer & Co. Ltd., Hawaii's second largest sugar company: "The so-called 'world market' is a dumping ground for surplus sugar that doesn't have a home...