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...more fun to call coffee zeese instead of coffee, because it recalled old Z.C., a cook who made coffee so strong you could float an egg on it. Or to call working ottin', after an industrious logger named Otto. To call a big fire in the grate a jeffer, because old Jeff Vestal always had a big fire going. To say charlie ball for embarrass, because old Charlie Ball, a local Indian, was so shy he never said a word. To say forbes, short for four bits, and tubes, for two bits. To call a phone a buckywalter after...
...member of the San Francisco school, Gary Snyder writes primarily from his modern Western background and the influences of his journey to the Far East. This new collection contains four sections: those poems written before 1956, when he was working as a logger and forest ranger; those composed between 1956 and 1964 in Japan, where he studied Zen; those influenced by his visit to India; and those completed on his return to the U.S. In all, the mark is of the imagist poet concentrating on the pure intensity of the picture...
...broken; his wife, Phyllis, 44, had a broken arm and ankle, and his stepdaughter, Carla Corbus, 15, was badly bruised. They were stranded 4,500 feet up, in northern California's Trinity Mountains. Luckily, Phyllis, a Northwestern University graduate, was a trained nurse, and Oien, a rough, resourceful logger who had worked his way up to ownership of a Portland hotel, was an experienced outdoorsman...
...singularly fortunate in losing only two lives at Communist hands so far. One I.V.S.er, Peter Hunting, 24, was murdered from ambush by the Viet Cong in 1965. Another, Fred Cheydleur, 20, a Quaker from Philadelphia, was gunned down last week by Red guerrillas in the Laotian jungle. An expert logger, stonemason and mechanic, Cheydleur was a muscular (5 ft. 11 in., 195 lbs.), compulsively hard-working youth who became a pacifist, according to one of his teachers, "when he discovered his own ability to hurt other boys all too easily." Said Radio Moscow of Cheydleur's death: "An agent...
...WEAVERS: REUNION AT CARNEGIE HALL, PART 2 (Vanguard). If anyone has forgotten that the Weavers were once the pharaohs of folk, here is fresh proof. Recorded at a concert in 1963, this new release includes Frozen Logger, Kisses Sweeter Than Wine, Old Smoky and Rock Island Line, plus a ditty called I'm Standing on the Outside of Your Shelter-bomb shelter, that...