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...summer camp calls itself an "experimental lab." The director insists that even swimming is "political." The children put on plays about heroic workers. Mao's China? A Soviet youth Komsomol? No, Santa Barbara, Calif. Situated in a rundown redwood ranch house nestled among the scrub oaks and laurels in the hills above the city, a unique camp run by those indefatigable activists Tom Hayden and Jane Fonda opened this summer for 150 youngsters from...
...wild boar. Inside the smoky communal hut, couples in hides and rough wool garments squat around the fire, spit-roasting a heavy pork leg and preparing sausages and black pudding made from skin, offal and gut. John Rossetti sheds his clothes, steps into a wood tub and begins to scrub off five days' grime with clay and hot water. John Rockcliff enters through the goatskin door, carrying a rat he has caught. It will be on the menu tomorrow...
...Western world. It is also rich in asbestos, granite, vanadium, chromium and manganese. By 1979 the homeland should be receiving direct mining revenues of about $30 million a year. But only 10% of BophuthaTswana's total land area is arable, and much of that is covered with scrub brush...
Arriving at the hospital, the investigators continued, MacKay was told by the doctors to scrub up quickly and lend them a hand in the crisis. Despite his lack of medical education, MacKay is described as something of a mechanical whiz. He regularly demonstrates products for doctors' groups, reads medical journals diligently, spends hours in his garage practicing surgical procedures with animal bones-and has "ghosted" for surgeons in the past. MacKay agreed not only to repair the cracked bone but also to replace the artificial joint. As he told the Long Island newspaper Newsday: "I kept repeating...
...this reporter competes as a scrub for Eliot. My reason? Well, I always wanted to see my picture in the Yale game football program...