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Lindsey lent out 37 horns, sold eight more at $3 each. Then 60 hunters sallied forth one night last week. For eight hours they stumbled through scrub-oak thickets, squawking dismally. Turkey went along in his campaign suit (double-breasted gabardine) and tan oxfords, stepped gingerly around rain puddles...
...accompanied by a rabble of house dogs, joined in the search. The skirmishing took on the look of a Guatemalan revolution. Civil Air Patrol planes flew low. Cops, zookeepers, deputy sheriffs, volunteer gunmen and a detachment of Marine reservists with M-i rifles and walkie-talkie radios scoured the scrub-oak thickets, flushing out rabbits, house cats, and, occasionally, each other...
...Francisco River is South America's fifth longest;* for more than 1 ,000 miles it winds northward from the quartz-bearing uplands of Minas Gerais through the arid, scrub-covered backlands of Brazil's northeastern bulge. Then, suddenly, it hurls itself 275 feet down a jagged granite precipice in the spectacular Paulo Afonso Falls...
Like lay brothers in a religious house, Kent Schoolboys do most of the work around their establishment themselves. They make beds, wait tables, do kitchen duty, scrub floors. Another part of the Kent pattern since its founding in a Connecticut farmhouse 43 years ago by Father Frederick H. Sill: a headmaster drawn from the Episcopal (and monastic) Order of the Holy Cross...
Graham remembered him as a young instructor at North Carolina, where he had been a rangy prodigy who played first base on the scrub baseball team a few years before. Others remembered him on his first trip abroad, a lanky six-footer who used "mouth-filling sesquipedalian words," wore high-necked collars, and was determined to become Shaw's Boswell. He had taken one mathematics Ph.D. at North Carolina, took another at the University of Chicago. In between, he studied under Einstein at the University of Berlin...