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...deer hunters get their game 75% of the time, elk hunters 30%. Lured by the promise of profitable shooting, hunters from 44 states, Alaska, Hawaii, Mexico, and even South Africa, roamed the mountains last year. This year they ranged from completely outfitted safaris from Texas (one man towed a jeep-load of equipment behind his Cadillac) to local residents, who, for the price of a license ($7.50) and ammunition, could salt away a winter's supply of venison by just strolling out in their own back acres...
...funeral procession was a mile from the crematory when two platoons of Rajasthan police intercepted it. The crowd shouted threats and curses, but the cops managed to get the widow Ballabhdas into their jeep by promising to take her direct to the cremation ground. Instead they carted her off to the police station, where, though she beat her breast and wailed that she had been betrayed, she was held in custody until the cremation was over. She was released when she agreed not to attempt suicide. Jaipur's disappointed suttee fans were not so easily pacified. All that...
...other private interests) and powerful, Chichi was content to stay in the background until this year. Then he put a trusted subordinate in command of the police and ran for President. His lively brunette wife Cecilia, known as "Ceci" to most Panamanians, stumped the country for him by plane, jeep, boat, oxcart, and on foot. "I never wanted to be President, but I have to do away with this anarchy," said Chichi...
...reason was that it was a new kind of mining, requiring a new kind of prospector. Trained geologists, equipped with gamma-ray logging units and other instruments, prospected the area by helicopter, horse and jeep. The number of uranium mines jumped from 15 to more than 200, their employment soared to 5,000. In 1951 alone, some $30 million of private capital was poured into the area, and uranium mining, though still wrapped in AEC secrecy, is thought to be Colorado's biggest mining industry. The uranium that is transported through the streets of Grand Junction every...
...Orient by missionary parents, was U.S. consul at Tihwa, in China's far western Sinkiang province, when Communist armies began pressing close. With his wife, an ex-Army nurse, the embassy staff and their wives & children, he started the long trek out by truck and jeep, through the depths of the sweltering Turfan Depression, and across the 18,300-ft. Karakoram Pass, until they made safety in a Kashmir village...