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...holocaust, some people tried desperately to save their houses on their own. Said Lawyer Ron Cook: "I got on the roof and started hosing it down. We stuck it out until the heat got so bad we couldn't stand it. Then we left with the dog, cat, our daughter and one bag of dirty laundry." By next morning, all that remained of Cook's $100,000 house was a crumbling stone fireplace and a flattened metal garage door...
...reform program designed to undo the damage. In a 1962 speech that was to haunt him later, Teng declared that ideology came second to results: "For the purpose of increasing agricultural production, any by-hook-or-by-crook method can be applied. It doesn't matter whether a cat is black or white so long as it catches mice...
...spot turns out to be a street in Brooklyn Heights overlooking New York harbor, with Manhattan as a cinemascopic background. Superman, after a hard day's work going faster than a speeding bullet and leaping tall buildings at a single bound, spots a cat caught in a tree and swoops down to the rescue. How does he swoop? How, in fact, does he fly? Ah, that is the reason for the cloaks and the daggers: the producers are terrified a photographer will follow the reporter and show Superman being held up by a 100-ft. crane and wires. Says...
Even with the crane and wires, flying is not easy. Christopher Reeve, 24, who plays Superman, has to make a dozen or so passes 50 ft. in the air before he bags his cat, made suitably cooperative by the taxidermist. Every once in a while Superman is brought down for an adjustment of his ailerons. He has 25 different costumes and perhaps six different kinds of capes-for standing, sitting, flying and coming in for a landing. He is now wearing his flying cape, which is stretched out with wires so that it appears to billow in the wind...
Texas, after their move from Lafayette, La. The distance he covered was almost 300 miles, and it took him four months to get there. The most fecund female on record was a Texas cat named Dusty, who gave birth to her 420th kitten in 1952 at the age of 17. By the popular and extremely rough rule of thumb that one year of a cat's life equals seven of a human's, that would make Dusty...