Word: packer
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...have two horses with us and fare little better. Led by John Indrehus, a horse packer with a pistol strapped to his belt, the horses struggle over fallen trees, and one, having cut its leg open, bolts, nearly running us down. By late afternoon we climb to the snow line, and the horses, each 1,200 lbs. of skittishness, start shying as they sink into the drifts. Indrehus is worried that one will break a leg under a buried log. "That's why you bring the pistol," he says. Fairchild decides to camp early and send the horses back...
...fill it. Just three days after Oprah's announcement, the Today show said it would start a monthly club of its own. USA Today and Live with Regis and Kelly soon followed, and last week Good Morning America jumped into the literary fray, announcing its first title, Ann Packer's The Dive from Clausen's Pier. Though all tout Winfrey as the book-club queen, each media outlet has tried hard to distinguish itself from her--and from one another. --By Harriet Barovick...
...works: A segment called "Read This" will each month profile a different regional book club, whose members will then choose the next book. Last week viewers met the margarita-sipping, tiara-sporting Pulpwood Queens of Jefferson, Texas; their recommendation of Ann Packer's book shot it to No. 1 on Amazon.com
...Packer, who was a managing director at Merrill Lynch, was delivering a keynote speech to an e-commerce conference on the 106th floor of the World Trade Center’s North Tower...
Though in his academic and professional life Packer specialized in highly technical subjects—such as his thesis on fluid dynamics—he felt at ease in the humanities and could easily explain his own work in layman’s words, said Ronald M. Soiefer ’75, a college friend...