Word: deere
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...crowd remained standing silently until Maharishi ('The Great Sage') had sat down on a deer-skin, meditated for a few seconds, and smiled transcendentally. But after a half hour of his message people began to chat and filter...
...party's oldest war horse met last week to create more worries for the Kremlin. Rumanian President Nicolae Ceauseşcu, 49, and Yugoslav President Josip Broz Tito, 75, first donned loden coats and tramped with shotguns through Tito's slushy game reserve in Croatia, loaded for deer. Back for a talk at Tito's hunting lodge near Osijek, they took more careful aim at a larger target: Moscow's campaign for a grand conference of Communist states...
Tito and Ceauseşcu may have decided on a common strategy to discourage the conference, but it was not disclosed in the final communiqué, which spoke only of "the comradely atmosphere of the talks." The communiqué was also discreet enough not to mention the number of deer that each man had bagged in the hunt. Ceauseşcu, whatever his gifts as a statesman, is known to be a much poorer shot than his more experienced revisionist colleague...
...caper began last winter, when Mailer's play The Deer Park was running off-Broadway. Mailer and a few of the actors got into the habit of boozing together in a Greenwich Village restaurant after performances. As boys will, they fell into a game of let's pretend. They pretended they were Sicilian gangsters, and they gave themselves names-Cameo, Twenty Years, The Prince (Mailer, of course)-and they talked tough and dirty at each other night after night. It was all such fun that Mailer laid out $1,500, moved his make-believe Mafiosos into a large...
...more than $20 million in workers' wages. Many families are subsisting on strike benefits of from $10 to $30 a week or on welfare payments from the states or from the Mormon Church. Menus in the workers' homes have turned to bread and potatoes, stretched out with deer shot during the October hunting season. Businessmen who depend on miners are hurting too. G. R. Harmon, a grocer in the mining town of Granger, Utah, estimates that his business is off 62%. "People aren't buying anything that isn't basic food," says Harmon...