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...Twenty miles from Sun Valley. There are more than a dozen other Silver Creeks in Idaho, and more than two score Deer Creeks...
Northeast of Anapolis, pioneers are opening up the great, mile-high, 1,800,000-acre chapada dos veadeiros (plateau of the deer hunters). In all Brazil, its land is best for wheat, and wheat is what Brazil needs. Last year the country spent $135 million on imports. Much of the chapada is forested, but the pioneers are hard at work, burning off the underbrush and rooting out stumps. When a flame sears or an ax slips, friends will give the injured what fumbling first aid they can. If that is not enough, the patient is packed into a truck...
...Tame Deer. It was tame deer that in spired Kurt Hahn to be a teacher. A psychologist might have classified the deer browsing listlessly in the park at Oxford's Magdalen College, as well adjusted. But to Hahn, they seemed "contentedly unfit,' lacking ambition even to jump the fence. Were most schools producing tame deer...
...virtue is that they are handmade and therefore obviously very expensive. To show that he can afford to be "conspicuously wasteful," he turns a stretch of productive pasture into a non-productive park, boots out the "useful" cow that grazes there and replaces it with a herd of useless deer...
...horseshoe is embedded in the cement doorstep, framing a footprint of Glen as a four-year-old. He does much of his work at home, has a Dictaphone in the library where he wrote his book, Where I Stand. For recreation he likes to hunt (pheasant, quail, deer), play chess, take Glen fishing, go for long walks alone. He has few close friends outside his family, sees his father and brothers often (brother William is a sheet-metal worker, brother Elmer a grocer, brother Arthur a state employee). He has supported himself with articles and lectures...