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...currently pegged by planners at around ten gallons per week. That would permit the average car to be driven about 130 miles, but some Cadillac owners could go only 80 miles while some Datsun drivers could roll 290 miles. People who could demonstrate a need to drive-the Nevada rancher, say, who lives 50 miles from the nearest church-would get extra rations. Doctors, plumbers, salesmen and others whose cars are absolutely vital to their jobs would get still more...
...many ways a curious partnership. Pollock was the son of a Nevada rancher who had moved on to California. Lee's father was a Jewish emigrant from Poland who owned a food store in Brooklyn. Pollock sweated out lonely struggles with himself. Krasner was more suggestible. Sometimes her work echoed Mark Tobey, other times Mondrian, most often De Kooning...
Here is a movie that hymns the joys of a woman's subjugation to a man. As the standoffish wife of a rich rancher (George Hamilton), Catherine Crocker (Sarah Miles) runs away from home one day smack into a train robbery. The desperadoes, making off with the loot, take a fancy to Catherine's horse. Since Catherine refuses to dismount, she too is borne off into the wilderness...
...buffalo and what do you get? Cowed and buffaloed, as frustrated cattlemen have found after many crossbreeding attempts over the past century. Instead of turning out as beefy as a black Angus and as large and hardy as a bison, the hybrid offspring were sickly and infertile. Now, a rancher in Stockton, Calif., has apparently hit on the right combination of bovines to produce a meaty, tasty, economical animal...
There are some 30,000 buffalo roaming in the U.S. these days, but instead of trying to emulate Basolo's combination, cattlemen will probably find it easier to start with the hybrids themselves. Basolo is offering vials of his male animals' superior sperm to any interested rancher. Price: $7 for enough to impregnate one conventional...