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...young men (kind of hippies actually) who are presently wintering in Utah, but herd sheep in the Tetons of Wyoming in the summer. We are getting a bit tired of the usual "camp tenders" (cooks) who usually are employed, and have been seriously considering an intellectually, inclined female who speaks English...
Nixon proclaimed in his second Inaugural speech a determination to end "condescending policies of paternalism." The budget proves, in hard money terms, that he means it. He proposes the slaughter of a whole herd of formerly sacred cows-abolition or deep cutting of more than 100 federal grant programs that have benefited the unemployed, students, farmers, veterans, small businessmen, the mentally ill and tenants in federally aided housing. Estimated saving: $17 billion next year, $22 billion in fiscal 1975. In his budget message, Nixon referred contemptuously to these programs as products of the "do something, do anything" philosophy...
...Doubters reply that it is by no means sure that Loch Ness was ever linked to the sea, that there is hardly enough food in the loch to support such leviathans and that in any case, there would have to be at least 20 animals in a breeding herd-too many for the imaginations of even the most avid monster theorists...
...Kepesh the former lit professor who must have the last word. He is full of contempt for the "morons and madmen," anyone who would laugh, gape or exploit him. Nevertheless he feels the urge to lead this uneducated herd to drink from the reservoir of great art. In concluding what is surely the most stylish lecture of his career, he quotes "Archaic Torso of Apollo," by the German poet Rainer Maria Rilke...
...ways into the fenced areas and hunt down the animals. The worst experience came after the purchase from the Iranian government of several pairs of onagri. Ignorant of the wild ass's habits, officials at the reserve soon found that they had too many competitive males in the herd. Fights broke out. The winners tossed their rivals onto their backs and castrated them. Now, led by two surviving males, the herd numbers eleven of the species on which Jesus rode into Jerusalem...