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...right to thin the Piceance herd from 346 horses to 166. Along with his wife Shirley, 52, and brother Gil, Crawford has spent hours in the garage perfecting the labyrinthine steel pen. He has spent another two days airborne over Yellow Creek, scouting the precise location to erect it. Crawford chooses a gully at the confluence of three trails near a favorite watering spot. His crew toils for a day under a blistering sun erecting the 10-ft.-high cage, securing it with iron stanchions and braces of lodgepole pine, and camouflaging its sides with sage and chimisa bush...
...Iago, Christopher Plummer gives a shrewdly structured yet hearteningly scenery-chewing Performance--careful and nuanced enough to dispel Colerdge's nagging "motivelessmalignity" tag. At the start he is sleazily pthetic, a bundle of unchannelled energy expressed in random, hoarsely inexpressive shouts and struts. When not center stage he is erect and twitching against a back wall, his eyes glazed as if his brains were being barbecued. He is no Mahiavelli, but a quick-witted opportunist handed a turkey and a shotgun. Recongnizing this, his frame swells with cookiness. It's gestures become honed, and his voice pierces effortlessly through...
...wanted him to go on such a mission. All three Presidents had bulletproof vests. Some other dignitaries did not. (On the day of the funeral, Percy climbed into a limousine with Nixon, Ford and Kissinger and noted that the three were sitting like penguins. "My, but you look erect," said the unsuspecting Percy. "Where's your flak vest?" he was asked. It suddenly dawned on him that between him and any bullet were only two layers of Brooks Bros.' best tailoring. "Let me sit behind you," Percy said wryly...
Workers will erect new signs along the street--which runs from Mass. Ave. to the Charles River in front of the Kennedy School of Government--on May 29, the anniversary of Kennedy's birth...
...Dominican Republic, Venezuelan money is helping to finance the construction of a $64 million hydroelectric project, housing, and a $2.3 million alcohol distillery. The tiny island state of St. Lucia (pop. 120,000) has opened a $400,000 asphalt plant, courtesy of Caracas. In Panama, officials are planning to erect a $100 million bridge to span the canal-with Venezuelan backing. An estimated $100 million in Venezuelan money has flowed into embattled El Salvador to prop up the civilian-military government headed by Christian Democratic President José Napoleón Duarte, who spent seven years of exile in Venezuela...