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...years, the Swiss-born Haller retired in October, just as this reverential book was coming off the presses. Most of the recipes are for hearty, homey family favorites that reflect the regional backgrounds of Presidents from Lyndon Johnson (who favored Texas-style chili con carne, lamb hash and deer sausage), through Gerald Ford (lusty, German-influenced fare like sweet-and-sour stuffed cabbage, apple pancakes and a revolting curried tuna casserole), to Ronald Reagan (hamburger soup, roast-beef hash and, in more sophisticated moments, the Italian veal-shank dish called osso buco). Haller presents some macabre juxtapositions of historic events...
...fields has then been sold as feed to farmers and ranchers. Nearby residents charge that the fertilizer may be contaminating the Arkansas River and the water table near the Oklahoma-Arkansas border. Local Veterinarian Gary Johnson is concerned that the "hay is getting into the food chain." Jessie Deer In Water, who chairs the local Native Americans for a Clean Environment, calls it the "ultimate in cheap waste disposal...
These, in turn, are represented by the requisite Shepard blatant symbolism: a giant mobile of model warplanes, an ominous yellow-green moon on the backdrop, rifles, a deer carcass, an American flag, and lots of people wearing plaid flannel shirts, Levi's button-fly jeans, and shitkickers...
...that Rheumatologist Allen Steere, then at Yale, made sense of the malady. Steere investigated a group of children, in and around Lyme, Conn., who were suffering from a mysterious form of arthritis. He traced the outbreak to speck-size ticks of the genus Ixodes, carried mainly by mice and deer. In 1982 federal researchers isolated the culprit from the tick: a corkscrew-shaped bacterium, or spirochete, similar to the one that causes syphilis...
...Deliverance," the 1970 best seller that launched Dickey out of poetry circles and into the celebrity void. He was good, fast-drying copy. Big and burly as a stereotypical Southern sheriff (a role he played in the movie of Deliverance), he strummed a guitar, partied hard and shot at deer with a bow and arrow. His collection of poems, Buckdancer's Choice, won a 1966 National Book Award, but he was also a member of the warrior class, having flown Black Widow night fighters against the Japanese in the South Pacific...