Word: buffalo
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...proliferating herds of hippo, buffalo and giraffe add to the problem, and as a result, African game parks are badly overgrazed and their enormous herds are faced with famine. Tsavo's hungry elephants have uprooted entire forests of thorn trees, turned giant baobab trees into twisted wreckage in their search for edible shrubbery. Parts of the Zambezi Valley, according to one conservationist, "look as though an atom bomb had exploded in the area...
Before it is over, Africa will have gone through the biggest big game hunt in its history. Already Uganda has "cropped" 4,000 hippo and nearly 2,000 elephants. Zambia and Rhodesia have hired white hunters to kill as many as 10,000 buffalo and hippo. In Kenya, where authorities at first feared that mass elephant slaughters might frighten the rest of the game out of the reserves, a month-long pilot hunt proved so successful that the government is now taking bids for the killing of thousands of elephants. Its primary stipulation: that the hunters destroy entire family units...
...symbolize Montagnard friendship. Solemnly, 250 Montagnard rebels knelt before him to pledge allegiance to the Saigon government. Then, as Ky, a host of government officials, and U.S. Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge looked queasily on, the Montagnards poured rice wine over the Premier's boots and slashed a water buffalo to death in honor of the Saigon visitors. Fortunately, the sacrifice took only five minutes rather than the usual hour or more. Both lowlanders and highlanders seem to have learned something about cross-cultural sensibilities...
...sometime thing. In his biggest year, Quarterback Lujack gained 791 yds. on passes, a figure that Terry Hanratty has already eclipsed this year with five games still to go. "The pass was a necessary evil," explains Whitey Piro, a onetime Iowa coach, now a scout for the pro Buffalo Bills. "You passed only when you were in trouble, when you had long yardage to make on third down. But practically no techniques were taught. You just ran toward the goal line and looked back every so often to see if the ball was coming your way." Says Georgia Tech Coach...
Housewives saw things quite differently. In Denver, irate women organized a large-scale boycott of major grocery stores and chanting female pickets helped persuade two chains to cut some prices by as much as 20%. Emboldened by their success, similar groups popped up in such cities as Buffalo, Baton Rouge, Detroit, Daytona Beach, Dallas, Houston, Albuquerque and parts of Los Angeles County. A group of Denver women, led by Mrs. Ruth Kane of suburban Aurora, set up a National Housewives for Lower Food Prices, filed incorporation papers with the Colorado secretary of state. Actually, says Campbell Soup President...