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Sighting a kinkajou (tropical honey-bear) in a treetop rising above the water, Walsh gave the order to move in. The cayuco bumped gently against the treetop, and an ax-wielding Indian hoisted himself onto a branch to chop through the trunk. As the treetop toppled, he caught the kinkajou by the tail before it hit the water. Soon the little bear was safely ensconced in a cage in mid-canoe. A black-vested anteater was rescued next, followed by an opossum, two sloths and even a 6-ft.-long tree boa. Explains Walsh: "I don't apologize...
Stumping the hardscrabble ethnic precincts and the fashionable ballrooms of Pennsylvania, the three most active Democratic candidates last week at times seemed peckish and anxious. All have drastically had to chop their spending and personally phone likely contributors for more aid. Congress had put them in the bind by unconscionably taking off for an Easter recess before a law reviving federal campaign subsidies could be passed (TIME, April 12). And all three were worried that they faced varying degrees of loss in the state...
...religious imagery is gratuitous; in "Womanlove" most of what the writer has to say is, like the title, banal; "Daylight" is glutted with loaded, but not particularly related, imagery. None of these is totally uninteresting, however--unexpected phrases make them worth looking through. Only the poem about a chop suey joint and high school hangout is boring...
...audience he addresses, Harris says: "The fundamental problem is that too few people have all the money and power, and everybody else has very little of either-and that is not what Thomas Jefferson had in mind." Inveighing against "bigness" in all forms, Harris says he wants to chop down big Government and big business, but he is more reticent about big labor, since he needs its support. He would break up the automobile, oil and steel industries, corporate farming operations and one-bank holding companies. "These companies say they want free enterprise," warns Harris. "Well, I would give them...
...calm spring evening seven years ago, Edward Michaels, 68, a retired caterer in the Chicago suburb of Northlake, Ill., finished his chop suey dinner and told his family he was going out for a walk. He never returned...