Word: herding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...been locked up briefly in cells in the regional center, Arusha. Hundreds of young Masai have been drafted into a kind of national construction corps in which they must wear olive green fatigues, floppy jungle hats and heavy boots. If necessary, says Mkwang'ata, police are prepared to herd the Masai into mass baths, burn their ceremonial garb in public and shave off their ochered hair...
...Hats, Nine Spreads. Faced by the squeeze and the modernization necessary to escape it, small ranchers are giving up. Not too long ago, a herd of 150 cattle could be grazed economically; today 400 represent the lowest economical unit. The trend is to younger, leaner cattle, raised on bigger, better spreads. The biggest operation of all, and a beacon for the industry, belongs to Robert O. Anderson, 50, who wears one big hat as chairman and chief executive of the Atlantic Richfield Co., doffs that for a cattleman's Stetson when he turns to the business he enjoys most...
Modern cattlemen herd their cattle by helicopter, brand them with dry ice instead of red-hot irons, talk about "gatherings" instead of roundups, depend on a good accountant more than a wise old foreman and, when they fade into the sunset, do so in pickup trucks with their trusty horses comfortably trailered on behind. About the only things old pokes would still recognize about the industry, indeed, are its size and its troubles. Cattle roam no less than 40% of all the land in the U.S., account for 20% of all farm income and the principal revenues of at least...
...creatures that thrive in a disturbed environment," says Ben Glading, a California game official. "It seems that the more man upsets the natural environment, the better the deer like it." California, the nation's most populous state, also supports the nation's second biggest (behind Texas) deer herd-1,000,000. Pennsylvania has more deer today than when William Penn founded the colony. And in New York, where deer were extinct in 1915, the whitetail population...
...Division-part of some 30,000 Red regulars operating in an area defended by 6,000 Marines. Nearly 100 mortar and rocket shells rained down on the leathernecks. Then, recalls Platoon Sergeant John E. Lewis, 22, "the enemy came across the paddies in waves like a herd of turtles." The battle raged for five hours. While the Marines on the ground fought at times hand to hand, F-4 Phantoms dropped napalm on the attackers. When the North Vietnamese finally broke off the battle and crept across the DMZ into the darkness, they left 140 dead behind. The Marines took...