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...been laid up in the hospital with hepatitis. I had been delirious for a few days, and when I woke up, I told my wife we had to find some land. I just got fed up with working as a lifeguard. You remember me down at the Safari Motel, I was a lifeguard there. Selling suntan lotion. I just got tired of the Safari Motel and phony people. When you're a lifeguard you've got to sell your products. Make 'em buy shit to put on their skins. Sell 'em a buncha lies. That stuff costs maybe 35 cents...
Injured while on safari in the East African bush, Hemingway's fictional hunter, Harry, died for lack of medical attention. In the same area recently, a real-life American hunter, Rifle Manufacturer Leo W. Roethe, narrowly escaped the same fate: his right leg was badly mauled by an attacking wounded male lion. Members of his party were able to radio the East African Flying Doctor Service, which dispatched a light plane to an airfield in the bush. The plane airlifted Roethe to a modern hospital in Nairobi, where he was patched up and sent home to Fort Atkinson...
...Inauguration Day in 1971, however, Tolbert toured his capital in a Volkswagen instead of the Tubman Cadillac, and he showed up for the swearing-in ceremony in an open-neck, short-sleeved safari suit instead of the Tubman top hat. He also got rid of his predecessor's $2,000,000 yacht...
...dozen groups are offering tours to the best spots from which to observe a total eclipse of the sun in June; there will not be a longer blackout until 2150. One airline will fly 250 customers to Kenya's Lake Rudolf, where they will stay in a special safari camp complete with guides, hunters, scientists and lectures on astronomy. A Boston group will fly from New York City to Casablanca, board the S.S. Masalia for a cruise along the path of the eclipse in the South Atlantic and hear a series of lectures on the phenomenon en route...
Manipulation has been the consistent theme of Bok's major administrative decisions. Last Spring, he responded to student demands for Harvard's divestiture of Gulf stock with the threat of injunction against the Mass Hall occupiers and the promise of a romantic-sounding fact-finding safari to Angola. The results of that mission have borne out the demonstrators' immediate skepticism regarding its significance...