Word: hunts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sons awakes in the bunkhouse to hear the cattle crying far out in the storm. Subsequently he and one of his brothers ride out to investigate; a few hours later his body is carried back to the ranch slung to his horse. His brother remains in the mountains to hunt down the killer...
Most of the story deals with this lonely hunt, and also with teh tight complex tensions which are released in the Bridges family by the death of the first son. The third and youngest son is left at the ranch to cope with the messy psychological situation created by his brother's death, among his sister, his parents, and his fiancee. By exercising fantastic self-control, he keeps the tensions in hand msot of the time, but just barely...
...Spain by candlelight; its brown-skinned, barefoot rubber gath, erers get their only view of the outside world from old film plays. In jungle-hemmed clearings jaguars and blood-sucking bats prey on the settlers' cattle. Along the region's sluggish, yellow rivers, savage bush Indians hunt heads and shoot arrows at low-flying airplanes. Occasionally, from the principal cities of Santa Cruz (pop. 30,000) or Trinidad (pop. 7,500) an intrepid missionary rides forth to minister to the Indians, sometimes to be seen no more...
...often no females show up, though the males dance and hum their best. This has led to another theory that swarming is merely a device to brief the males and encourage them. After the dance is over, presumably, the males sally forth, full of enterprise, to hunt for mates...
Doubles--Ager and Bullard (H) defeated Hands and Ray (Y), 6-4, 7-9, 6-4; Higgins and Key (H) defeated LaRoche and Aymar (Y), 2-6, 8-6, 6-4; Ames and Hughes (H) defeated Carr and Hunt (Y), 4-6, 8-6, 8-6; Bramhall and Reese (H) defeated Russell and Smith (Y), 7-5, 6-3; Slote and Stokes (Y) defeated Combs and Zinsser...