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...beginning to look a lot like Christmas at the White House last week. The tree arrived, a 20-ft. blue spruce from Michigan. Nancy and Ronald Reagan, meanwhile, were sending off the official presidential Christmas card, a reproduction of a Jamie Wyeth painting that shows the White House's north portico under a blanket of snow marked by a winding trail of squirrel tracks. Printed and mailed at the expense of the Republican National Committee, the card will go out to 125,000 friends and supporters, about 50,000 more than last year. The Reagans apparently acquired some...
They had filed for homesteads along an old mining road, about six miles from the river. All summer they chopped spruce and birch trees, pulled stumps, dug wells, fought off bears, baked bread and canned moose and porcupine meat. They planted a garden on a cleared acre of land lent by Shorty Bradley, who had trapped and hunted in the area off and on since 1939. Marino Sik cleared two acres and built a barn, and worked late into the cold autumn nights to finish a log lean-to for his trailer. He was sick of trying to work communally...
Madison has been stationed in Meeker since 1979, when he finished his wildlife division training in Denver. The country is truly beautiful-deep aspen and spruce forests, snowcapped mountains and rolling ranchland-and this partly makes up for the lack of friendship in town. So does the great variety of his work. One day he may be up before dawn to survey an elk herd by helicopter. The next day he and Duke may hike ten miles into the high country to stock a remote lake with trout. When Madison checks fishing licenses on a lake, Duke sleeps...
...Chinese have also tried to spruce up their image. Radio Peking broadcasts 18 hours of programming daily to Eastern Europe, and the quality of the languages spoken by Chinese broadcasters has improved, as has the content of the programs. "It used to be just propaganda a few years ago," said an East European journalist. "But now the picture we have of China from radio broadcasts is really very like the way China...
President Reagan, who has been working hard to spruce up his tattered image with environmentalists, planned to have a peaceable luncheon last week with leaders of five of the nation's major conservation groups. But instead of a fence-mending meeting, the President got a showering of Third of July fireworks. The cause: his announcement the previous day that he was appointing Anne Burford, who was forced to resign last year as head of the Environmental Protection Agency, as chairwoman of the National Advisory Committee on Oceans and Atmosphere. Emerging from the stormy 90-minute session, Jay Hair, executive...