Word: conservationists
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...even though it meant flying to his safari camp in Kenya. That was last November, and not only did she perk up Daddy-Newport Socialite Howard G. Gushing-she very much cheered Writer-Photographer Peter Hill Beard, Yaleman ('61), great-grandson of Railroad Baron James J. Hill, wildlife conservationist and author (The End of the Game), The stalking went well, and last week word came that the lissome, darkly beautiful "Minnie," 24, and Beard, 29, will be married in August at The Ledges, the Newport cottage built by her great-grandfather...
...waste time with colds, or anything else. He has been found in the morning shaving with one hand while reading a book in the other, or at graduate semniars, clipping his nails while reports are read. He religiously dictates everything he writes. Edwin Reischauer, University Professor and a time conservationist of lesser repute, recently suggested they skip lunch to meet and plan a course. "But you have to eat," replied Fairbank. Reischauer looked skeptical. Fairbank continued, "If we don't eat then, we'll have to use up some time before or after our meeting...
...result, African game parks are badly overgrazed and their enormous herds are faced with famine. Tsavo's hungry elephants have uprooted entire forests of thorn trees, turned giant baobab trees into twisted wreckage in their search for edible shrubbery. Parts of the Zambezi Valley, according to one conservationist, "look as though an atom bomb had exploded in the area...
...trial; under Tanzanian law, the verdict is rendered by two assessors before it is either accepted or rejected by the presiding judge. Assessors are supposed to be familiar with the customs of the accused's tribe, and Kinsey had to settle for one U.S. citizen, Soil Conservationist Gail Bagley of Elsberry, Mo. The second assessor was a bespectacled Tanzanian economist, Fred Mugobi, who was at least American-educated. The defense counsel was a British-trained, Kenya-born attorney of Greek parentage-Byron Georgiadis...
Died. Charles M. Goethe, 91, California banker-turned-conservationist who made a fortune in real estate before he was 30, and spent the rest of his life using it to help protect the nation's natural beauty, making heavy donations to the infant National Park Serv ice from 1919 to 1923 to help preserve Yosemite's rugged splendor, later became a leader in the fight to save California's diminishing redwoods; of bronchial pneumonia; in Sacramento, Calif...