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...terrorist mine in County Tyrone. On the Ulster-Eire border, a bomb destroyed a customs post. Belfast suffered the greatest destruction. There have been more than 160 bombings during the past year; one suspected fire-bombing lit up the night sky as nearly $4.8 million worth of cut timber burned in a lumberyard...
...have fallen victim to the city's foul air-which a Ludwig Maximilian University study in Munich ranks second only to Tokyo's in pollutants. For their own sake, all 16 of the current crew have been banished to the piney slopes of lower Bavaria to haul timber...
...hunted on Seymour Mountain with bow and arrow (he scoffs at "white Indian" westerns: "No Indian holds a bow perpendicular. You must shoot with the bow horizontal so the arrow doesn't curve to the ground"). He helped his father log the tribe's timber and often paddled a canoe into Vancouver for supplies. Baptized a Roman Catholic like his father and grandfather, Dan George attended the reserve's missionary school until he was 16, then quit to devote full time to logging. Three years later he was married, and as his family grew (two sons, four...
Seavers' basic job is importing, from any place in the world. Over the last four years in Vietnam, for example, he has brought in rice from Mexico, timber from Taiwan, and evaporated milk from New Zealand...
...flamboyant, which you're not supposed to use in minimal work. Instead of being unimportant, my work is very outrageous." His large floor piece, Bloomin', is an artificial wooden garden: panels of coarsely cut building board lie flat as grass or fold into flowerlike cones; sprouts of timber push upward. "I want the color to look like growth, living and flowers. Brown is the earth, green for growth, bright colors for mature flowers." Spring unfolds in the unheard creakings of Shostak's rough carpentry. ∎Robert Hughes