Word: cat
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...Calexico, a door-to-door check was in progress to make sure that every dog or cat was vaccinated against rabies. In Mexicali. health officers opened vaccination clinics for dogs, got 5.000 vaccine doses from the Pan American Health Organization. It looked like too little, too late; more than 600 residents had been bitten, of whom 425 had taken shots. Casualty reports were feared daily. Even the intensive efforts north of the border mir;ht not be enough. Said Calexico's City Health Officer Al Brooks: ''If we get by without a few people dying from rabies...
Cornered. In Los Angeles, arrested for trespassing when police found him crouched in a salvage yard, Richard Evans explained: "I was looking for rats for my cat...
...picaresque novel, the goings-on become a little hard to swallow. Disbelief can, in Coleridge's phrase, be suspended willingly, but it should not be hung by the neck until dead. The fault is not really important. With his portrayal of Billy, a Dick Whittington who misplaces his cat and never makes it to London. Author Waterhouse has created one of the year's most entertaining characters...
...16th century, when a local Cossack leader addressed the Turkish Sultan Mahomet III in a letter whose milder passages read: "We will lick you on land and sea, you hostile son-of-a-bitch . . . You Alexandrian goatherd, you Babylonian cook, you Macedonian wagonmaker, Jerusalem's traitor, Kamchatka cat, Podolian villain, swindler of the world, and evildoer of the underworld...
Five Finger Exercise. There is more than a measure of truth in Playwright Peter Shaffer's picture of English country life, and John Gielgud's fine direction helps to keep the uneven play (with Roland Culver and Jessica Tandy) from becoming intolerably cat-and-mousey, turns it into an engrossing production...