Word: lefts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...currently enrolled at the College of African Wildlife Management at Mweka, in northern Tanzania. "I like the work," he says, "because the Africans who come to Mweka are drawn, in ever-increasing numbers, by some deep-rooted sense of mission. They are the ones who will nurture what is left of Africa's long-ravaged game populations...
When we last left the Ramparts Boys they were in a pretty tight fix: the phones were out, there was no more booze in the closet and, worst of all, they owed a million and a half dollars to angry creditors-including their archenemy, the Internal Revenue Service. When Leader Warren Hinckle III wrote the whole thing off, it sure looked like the end for the gang's magazine...
...fast, fellas and girls. Remember Publisher Freddy Mitchell's vow to keep the magazine alive at all costs? Well, no sooner had Warren left than the gang got together and decided that what they had to do was file bankruptcy papers. And they did! That was last February. Then the Boys went out to collect as much money as they could find. Which they did! More than $100,000 from ten new investors-enough to keep the IRS off their backs...
...Frommer, Fielding writes "as though the only reason for going to Europe is to eat one grand meal after another. My people don't want to stay in hotels that have stock market tickers in the lobbies. They're people who want to test Europe?live on the Left Bank of Paris instead of the Right, eat in the same restaurants the local people eat in." Frommer's "people" are mainly travelers in the 30-and-under age bracket?currently nearly half of all the U.S. tourists who visit Europe. He appeals to them so gainfully that within ten years...
...Allan Lockheed, 80, aviation pioneer and co-founder of Lockheed Aircraft Corp. (TIME, May 30); of liver cancer; in Tucson, Ariz. A onetime barnstormer, Lockheed began designing planes in 1911. His company was a pioneer in the use of radical streamlining and molded plywood wings and fuselages. When Lockheed left the company in 1929, he had already made his place in aviation history with the Lockheed Vega, a swift, dependable monoplane that was favored by such adventurers as Wiley Post, Frank Hawks and Amelia Earhart...