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...rodeo is still rock-hard with flinty characters. Wick Peth, 44, could be relaxing at his ranch in Bow, Wash.; instead, he runs around rodeo arenas as a bullfighter trying to keep marauding horned brahmas from impaling riders who have toppled in their path. Earlier this year, Peth was gored in the leg and ripped both Achilles' tendons; three weeks later he was back in action. Malcolm Baldrige, 51, is more fanatical than flinty. Chairman of the diversified Scovill Manufacturing Co. in non-cowboy Waterbury, Conn., Baldrige takes every chance he can get to join the tour and rope...
...setting on Riverside Drive, and the water of the reservoir reflected a burning wick. The radiator near which I sat hissed and hummed: "Dust, dust, dust." The singsong penetrated my bones together with the warmth. It repeated a truth as old as the world, as profound as sleep...
...Boyle put it, "What if we really had to live this way?" Even Mark Boyle, 17, an ecology buff, concluded that "this is just not practical. How long can a family go on like this?" In view of the trouble that Burlington had in trimming its energy wick back for two days, the question more properly is: How long can the country go on without taking some sensible steps to prevent energy waste and develop new sources...
...Texas surveyor looking for a boundary marker tugged at a mysterious pipe protruding from the ground. The pipe, a "coyote getter," designed to shoot cyanide into any animal that disturbs its wick, fired a cartridge into the surveyor's hand. An hour later he was dead. Such incidents have become increasingly common as sheep growers and federal agents have used more and more poisons to kill predators. In some areas, foxes, weasels, eagles and a number of other species have virtually disappeared. Now, the Environmental Protection Agency has banned 19 products containing cyanide, thallium sulfate, strychnine and sodium monofluoracetate...
Seniors Bill Washauer and Joe Cavanagh were both impressive in their final match. Washauer beat Don Tansey at first singles, 6-4, 6-2, while Cavanagh knocked off Wick Chambers at second singles...