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...want anybody to help me either way. Why, we're making better money than the farmers who depend on the Government." These days, the Crocketts are enraged by a U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service proposal to buy up 27,000 acres of land in the region for a duck refuge. If the project goes through, some 80 families will have to sell their land and move out. The Crocketts, who refer contemptuously to "them Wildlifers," figure that "people are more important than ducks," have vowed to fight alone if necessary to keep the ducks out. Says Old Bill Crockett...
...shooting eye sharpened up on duck, hare and pigeon, Britain's Prince Charles, 13, sighted in on a stag herded into close range by royal drovers, gently squeezed the trigger of his rifle and bagged the beast on the very first try. Jolly good, puffed proud Papa Philip. "Dreadful and nasty," said Mrs. Jean Pyke, a member of England's League Against Cruel Sports. ''I'm not surprised," she huffed. "They have been teaching the boy to do horrible things like this. Perhaps it comes from King Henry VIII...
...Peculiar Group." In an effort to duck taxes, he turned to building and refurbishing cargo ships, an operation which the West German government, eager to restore its war-torn merchant marine, made completely tax deductible. Oldtime Hamburg shipping men scornfully dubbed Oetker's armada the "baking powder fleet," but through astute management his fleet of 67 tankers and freighters has kept busy without resorting-as some German shipping companies have-to running Soviet-bloc cargoes for Castro. Characteristically, Oetker got into the insurance business to pare his premiums, built his Condor companies into one of Germany's biggest...
...members of Havana's Public Accountants' Association, which used to be one of the strongest of Cuba's professional organizations. They scrounge their own funds, their own supplies, arms and ammunition, and daringly plan more attacks in the next few weeks-that is if they can duck the CIA agents who dog their footsteps trying to find out what they are up to and dissuade them from doing...
...Barn. Pekin, the home of Bird Farm Sausage, Bourbon Supreme and Olt's Duck Calls, was a pleasant place for boys. They played "stink base," "run, sheep, run," football and marbles, fished for crappies and perch in the river. The block on which the Dirksen house stood was rimmed with bushy maple trees, and Tom Dirksen recalls that "you could climb up in one tree and go all the way around the block without touching the ground, climbing from tree to tree." But Everett didn't go in too much for that sort of amusement. Says...