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...states tried to depict themes representative of the Great Society. Texas trundled by proudly with a model of the LBJ Ranch, including a plastic Pedernales River, and a beagle with a tail that wagged. Minnesota's banner heralded the state as the SOURCE OF MAN POWER AND BRAINPOWER, while Hubert's old college band cut loose with The Minnesota Rouser. Education and recreation were the principal themes, Southern states, by and large, had the prettiest girls, and each state had some touch that was indubitably...
...plastic intrauterine devices that have proved successful in limiting human pregnancies may provide one answer to India's problem of unwanted reproduction on the part of the 40 million ownerless, hungry, scavenging, substandard, unproductive but nonetheless revered cattle that roam the country... Because castration is almost as unacceptable to Hindus as slaughter, Frank W. Parker, a U.S. Government rural redevelopment specialist long stationed in India, hit on the alternative idea of contraception. At this suggestion animal husbandry experts at the Beltsville, Md, research center of the Department of Agriculture recently equipped 18 cows with plastic spirals and then attempted artificial...
...suddenly back on the scene at Manhattan's Village Vanguard. On opening night the turn-away crowd was studded with jazz notables anxious to hear what the bearded musician had been up to in retirement. Plenty, as it turned out. After two long, probing numbers on the white plastic saxophone that is his trademark, he casually broke out a violin and began sawing away with his left hand at a furious clip, torturing the strings into a chilling, whining frenzy. Then, without a word, Coleman uncased a trumpet and raged on in piercing splashes of startled, yelping notes...
...Explains one handler: "You begin by tying a live, kicking rabbit to the end of a pole. You swing the pole around, keeping the rabbit just ahead of the pup. He gets real anxious, and finally you let him catch the rabbit." Next, the dog graduates to chasing a plastic bunny -like Swifty, the mechanical rabbit at the track. Bad habits show up early, and they are often impossible to correct. The classic case is a greyhound named Terris Foot, who competed in hurdle races and always led the pack up to the final jump-where he always fell down...
...smaller arks has been moored just below a tributary of the Tiber; soon the gates will be open and the deluge will result. Sodom has been built out of charred plastic and spreads over 25 acres of Mount Etna. Katherine Dunham and her dancers were called in to provide the sin. Huston filmed Sodom dimly lit, and shied clear of the debauches of DeMille's epics. "There's no obscenity," says Huston, "but you will know unspeakable things are going...