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...more significantly, two more Green Beret teams were sent out in the field last month, this time crossing state borders. One twelve-man team is currently in the hamlet of Glenn Springs, S.C., 13 miles southeast of Spartanburg; and a 26-man unit is running a project at Lame Deer on the Tongue River Indian Reservation, home of the Northern Cheyenne, in Montana...
Chimp or Philosopher. Neanderthals conducted other elaborate rites besides funerals. Clues to one of these were uncovered in Lebanon last summer when an expedition led by Solecki, who is a professor of anthropology at Columbia University, found the dismembered skeleton of a small deer in a cave overlooking the Mediterranean. The 50,000-year-old bones had apparently been arranged in an orderly way and sprinkled with red ocher, a substance used for symbolic purposes by Neanderthal man. Reporting on the discovery last week, Solecki said: "These men were trying to ensure a successful hunt by the ceremonial treatment...
...mountain soon beyond us. Somehow, the bird following our road showed a sense of freedom from it. But what have our roads done to these creatures with their won, magical, geometrics? What are our headlights broad across the land in darkness, what are our vehicle crossings to the deer and rabbits and the mice and insects lost forever to blinded owls, all of it lifeless beneath our wheels and exploded in passing on our glass less tangible adversary in the summer-you feel it moving invisible around you, winter a fair opponent, cold all behind the ears and in moon...
Standing on top, when the sun rises above the mountains at eye level and the whole day casts its shadow below you-always in sun, always grateful for the light and warmth and presence. When that dawn joins the silence of birds calling for miles clear through the valleys, deer in the shadow of mountain eclipse, before the sun is over; and then a band of light the length of the mesa, a light which descends to the simple base of earth as sun moves into higher brightness...
...Ninh province. Tri choppered daily between the battlefield and his sumptuous villa, complete with swimming pool, on the river at Bien Hoa. There, Tri reveled in the role of host, bon vivant and raconteur. He was something of a zoo keeper as well, with ducks, pigeons, a deer, an ox and a pig roaming the grounds. Tri was devoted to his wife and six children; he taught economy to the younger ones by using their allowances to buy animal feed for the pig, then letting them split the profit when the pig was sold. But his style of living...