Word: elk
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ensures reelection. "If I forget Montana, they're going to forget me," he says. "I know how I got here." At year's end, according to one Republican, "practically every living thing in Montana gets a Christmas card signed 'Mike.' I think he skips the elk and the mountain sheep...
...housing developers, who must construct more expensive homes to recover the cost of the plot and thus risk losing their mass market. Dallas' Centex Construction Co., the fourth biggest U.S. home builder, had to go 20 miles outside Chicago to find land cheap enough for its middle-income Elk Grove Village. The asking price for virgin land 30 miles from San Diego-with no houses around, no sewage or water service-is $3,500 an acre. Sometimes the price can kill a project. After land along a Houston freeway doubled in price, developers would have...
...article destroys loyalties to God, family and country. MARY DOMKE Elk Grove Village...
Boars on Horseback. Preserves are nothing new. New Hampshire's 25,000-acre Blue Mountain Forest Inc. was stocked in 1890 with deer, antelope, moose, elk, caribou, and Himalayan mountain goats. Railroad Magnate Austin Corbin chased boars there on horse back with javelins. Today, there are nearly 2,000 preserves in the U.S.-most of them open to anybody with a box of shells and a handful of greenbacks. Some are nothing more than dusty, played-out farms, stocked with a few pheasants and partridges. Others cater to the whims of an affluent society...
...bobcats, deer, black bears, ferocious Russian boars that can rip a man open with one slash of their 6-in. tusks. And that is not all: Owner "Wolfie" Wolfenbarger, a retired Knoxville restaurateur, has stocked the Haven with big-horned aoudad (wild sheep) from North Africa, mouflons from Corsica, elk from Canada, sika deer from Japan and red stags from Bavaria. In two days of casual shooting at the Haven last week, three hunters bagged four wild turkeys (average weight: 22 Ibs.), three huge boars, a 425-lb. black bear and two aoudads-one with 29-in. horns. Grinned...