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...Great Hunt. The mustang, which helped tame the West, is facing extinction for obvious reasons: it long ago became outmoded by trains, automobiles and farm machinery. Not worth preserving as game for hunters because it is too easy to track and kill, and not worth preserving for domestic use because it is too wild, stupid and inbred (according to some ranchers), the mustang has long been rounded up and "rendered"-a euphemism for slaughtered-by various entrepreneurs. At first the horse carcasses were valued only as a source of glue, clothing and violin bowstrings. But by 1945, industry recognized that...
...CFIA had long been the object of attacks by Harvard radicals who were critical of its role in American foreign policy. Although the Center has always been rather tame by Washington standards, it includes on its letter masthead such policy stalwarts as Robert R. Bowie, once a prominent figure in John Foster Dulles' State Department, and Henry A. Kissinger, now President Nixon's special assistant for natural security affairs...
...THERE was no other reason to tame youthful exuberance, there was always the constant specter of death that haunted the fortunes of the class. The 32 classmates who graduated as scheduled in June '46 (the rest of the record-breaking class of 1400 had either already managed to leave with diplomas or else they had enlisted or been drafted to return to Harvard at some later date-or, in a sizeable number of cases, not at all) were painfully aware of the fact that an even larger number of their classmates, 35 to be exact, were already dead. One classmate...
With regard to governmental corruption, the traditionally tame Far Eastern Economic Review reported the following in 1970 : "Its corruption, lethargy and indifference is as great if not greater than it ever was. Few people living under its rule actively support it. American officials have been unable to push for basic reforms due to the political necessity of getting on with the Lao civilian and military elite so that continued American bombing will be permitted...
Golden Fox. Environmental Action Inc., a group that last year helped organize Earth Day, is conducting an "ecotage" (for ecology and sabotage) contest. First prize for the best suggestion on how to tame polluters is a trip to Washington to receive a "Golden Fox" trophy. It is named for the famous "Fox" of Kane County, Ill. (TIME, Oct. 5), an anonymous ecoguerrilla who has conducted a colorful battle against polluters by blocking factory smokestacks and sewers and sloshing a corporate office with smelly piles of fish and river muck...