Word: pheasants
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...Flight's the Thing. More than 100 falconers (a generic term applied to all those who hunt with birds) from Germany, France, Belgium, Holland and Great Britain had entered the trials. They brought birds of half a dozen varieties, ranging from peregrines, which dive at pheasant and pigeons at speeds as high as 200 m.p.h., to a somewhat elderly eagle, especially trained (for Hermann Goring) as a fox killer...
...Fort Worth, his audience was one of the most enthusiastic he has ever addressed. At San Antonio, Spanish-Americans greeted him with signs reading "Viva 'Adlai" and "Ole Adlai." And in Uvalde, he got a public blessing and breakfast (bacon & eggs, fried ham and red-eye gravy, roast pheasant, hot biscuits and honey) from 83-year-old ex-Vice President "Cactus Jack" Garner...
...boss of Chicago's Marshall Field & Co.'s gun department, Charlie Hunter had long fretted over one big handicap for his customers. Since many of them had no opportunity to practice shooting under actual hunting conditions, they were likely to miss their duck or pheasant when the big chance came. What they really needed, he thought, was a place where they could practice under actual field conditions, thus make every shot count. By last week, after more than eleven years of on & off prodding, Marshall Field had decided Hunter was right. In a $100,000, 192-acre wooded...
...heavy woods, two 40-ft. towers have been erected to sail out clay ducks for the hunter in a blind below. For the quail, pheasant and partridge hunter, the store has built a 1,000-ft. fairway lined with corn shocks and rail fences. As the hunter stalks along, an accompanying "triggerman" follows him, releasing fast-flying clay birds that simulate the flights of the different game birds. The price for such fun: about $3 for 25 targets...
...select guests promenaded past swans in a lagoon bordered by tall royal palms. In the tropical night the palace's yellow sandstone battlements looked like a set for Aïda; along them, 200 lance-bearing dragoons in plumed, gold helmets stood guard. Dinner was caviar, foie gras, pheasant and asparagus tips, followed by deep, flowery toasts in Pommery...