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Growing on Goat's Milk. Cash was scarce. "I don't think I bought a steak for ten years," she recalls. But life was rich. While Henry taught pathology at Yale, they lived in a series of rented houses in Bethany, Conn. The Buntings skied, hiked, played tennis, spent long nights banding chimney swifts in a New Haven heating plant. For $200 they managed to buy 50 acres on a Vermont mountaintop. built a tar-paper shack retreat for $26. In 1940 the first of their four children (a daughter, three sons) was born...
Invariably dressed in blue jeans, Mary Bunting raised all her own vegetables, kept chickens and four goats. "We practically grew up on goat's milk," recalls Son Charles. She raised her children to love independence, poetry and the outdoors. "We all hate the city," says Daughter Mary. Weekends the Buntings wheezed off in their Model A Ford pickup truck to camp out on the mountaintop...
...Bunting slipped back to the Yale lab. "When I was home all day, I got tired," she says. "When I was working part-time, I could enjoy the ironing." She needed spirit. The Buntings were building their own house. While digging the cellar, they all lived in a null goat house -after fumigating...
Guilt Complexes. Toynbee and other academic critics seem most concerned by advertising's outsized influence on the cultural and living standards of society. "It's like the goat in Leviticus," says San Francisco's John Hoefer of Hoefer, Dieterich & Brown. "Everyone's atoning for his own guilt complexes about having more than his parents or his grandparents. Most people realize that half the world is starving while we're sitting pretty...
...earliest panacea peddlers to cross the Rio Grande was Dr. John Richard Brinkley, the ''goat-gland" tycoon who exploited his failing listeners' yearnings for potency to the tune of some $1,000,000 a year before he died bankrupt...