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...elegiac note. Ranches are being broken up into "ranchettes," absurd little parcels of land in the middle of nowhere. The owner thereby becomes a small parody of the land-holder, the cattle baron. Some ranchers are turning their land over to "exotic game safaris," importing African animals (gazelles or eland or Cape buffalo) and parading them over the range to be shot, for a handsome price, by city boys dressed up like Jeremiah Johnson...
...year program of its predominantly white Richard Bland College to four years. But the community of Petersburg, where Bland is located, already has a four-year school, Virginia State College, which is predominantly black. Both colleges were once officially segregated, and a special three-judge district court barred Eland's expansion on the grounds that it would undercut efforts to integrate Virginia State. The Supreme Court agreed. It also let stand a lower court ruling that forbade Brighton, Ala., to sell an abandoned junior high school building to a group intending to establish a whites-only private academy...
Africa-Texas Style! A herd of elephants pads its way up the green hills of Africa. A horde of eland tries to out run the pursuing cowboy. Cowboy...
Somehow the old eland was missing. Neither hide nor hair of him had been seen since the day that Kwame Nkrumah had been ostrichized, accused of being the biggest cheetah in Ghana, but safaris anyone knew, no fowl play was involved...
...cannot find the time to take African safaris, there is the 115-sq. mi. Y.O. Ranch. Owner Charles Schreiner III has stocked it with imported game from all over the world: deer from Japan, aoudad rams from North Africa, antelope from India, Corsican rams and the twisted-horn eland from Africa. Since Texas game laws don't protect these exotic animals, there is no special season. For $25 a day the hunter gets clean but rustic accommodations. The animals cost extra?$275 for each animal killed, but $4,000 for an eland...