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...disposed of. Every quart of sea water contains an average of 1¼ oz. of salt; a 150-million-gallon-capacity plant would end up producing more than 23,000 tons of salt a day. "Only when you have effective water management and still have a shortage," says Jack Hunter, an assistant director of the Interior Department's Office of Saline Water, "then desalinization may be the answer...
With the opening of the 1965 season only a week or so away, that kind of news is hardly what hunters want to hear. Worse yet, the duck that has been hardest hit, say experts of the U.S. Bureau of Sport Fisheries and Wildlife, has been the hunter's favorite: the big. lumbering and noisy mallard, which normally fills more than half of the Midwestern hunter's bag. Mallard breeding is at an alltime low; this year alone, hatchings fell 25% in the U.S., 35% in Canada. Now, as migration to winter grounds in the Gulf states begins...
...hero, by contrast, comes off remarkably well. He is a "rich, rich writer," an "incomparable" reporter, an elephant hunter who makes Hemingway look like a boy scout, a backchat merchant who is "one of the funniest men alive," a "poontang kid" who is "really great in the sack," a friend of Toots Shor. He is, in fact, a man who has everything-including a couple of things Author Ruark wanted and never quite attained: a Pulitzer Prize and a civilized prose style...
Everything to do with Hunter's arrival--for a year's study under the Master of Arts in Teaching program--sounds like a rush job. The fellowship which brought him here is in effect a forerunner of the much more widely publicized Kennedy Fellowships which will bring ten British students a year to Harvard, Radcliffe, and M.I.T. beginning next fall...
...carpet at Logan, no official welcoming committee, no exploding flash-bulbs greeted a thin 31-year-old Scotsman named Hugh Hunter when he came to Harvard from Cambridge University ten days ago as the first recipient of the John F. Kennedy Fellowship...