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...people most directly affected, of course, are the present residents of Aitkin County. Some have banded together to form a "Save Our Northland" committee devoted to doing everything it can to preserve the area's deer and quail hunting and wild, uncrowded spaces. But other residents favor having MXC as a neighbor. "What do we have to lose?" asks Housewife Barbara Hansen. Right now the county's job opportunities are so limited that the only future for her children is "a one-way ticket to Minneapolis. With MXC we have a chance to give them a choice...
...Chinese ship, Ritsuo (1663-1747) had to apply some 80 coats of lacquer-the dangerously toxic sap from a Japanese relative of poison ivy. Lacquer is slow drying; it had to be left for days or even weeks between coats, and laboriously burnished with charcoal and powdered deer horn. To examine these objects is to realize how vast a language of craft has been lost to Japan, and to the world, since the 19th century...
...beauty of a pun is in the oy of the beholder. Take Peter DeVries. "The things my wife keeps buying at auctions are keeping us baroque," he writes. And "Last night I dreamed of a female deer chasing a male deer in the mating season. . .a doe trying to make a fast buck...
...Little Deer Isle...
...always wanted a real training camp in the mountains," said Muhammad Ali. "Real logs, hard beds, coal stoves." Ali already has two log cabins and a gym at Deer Lake, Pa.; he plans enough additional cabins and mobile homes to sleep 20 people, including his wife, one son and three daughters. Ali figures such sylvan simplicity is worth the $150,000 it will eventually cost. So far, the 30-year-old ex-heavyweight champion can afford it-this week's Madison Square Garden bout with Floyd Patterson guarantees him $250,000-but after that, Ali plans to go easy...