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Beachcomber is no great shakes on looks. Unlike most greyhounds, he has a short tail that curls up at the tip. But he has all the breed's other characteristics: uncanny hearing, remarkable eyesight, a not too highly developed sense of smell. His owner, Paul Sutherland, a 43-year-old ex-butcher from Tulsa, expects to gross $40,000 this year. Says he: "Like all good dogs . . . Beachcomber's got brains...
...version, the shepherds were three Apennine comics: Nencio, Bobbi and Randello. Nencio inclined to be difficult; he refused to go in search of the Child until after breakfast. The shepherds offered their cloaks to the Madonna for blankets, begging her not to be offended by the goat smell. Then one of them turned to the audience, and exclaimed: "Think how the Blessed Virgin had not so much as a bed or sack to protect her, nor fire to warm the icy air, and that the Lord of the world had neither mattress nor cushion on which...
...years ago in Chicago. "I was only four then," he explains. "Too young for photography. And as a matter of fact I still paint once in a while. There's a sensuous gratification in handling the tools. Cameras, on the other hand, are cold machinery, developing chemicals smell bad, and the darkroom is torture...
...Kleberg Jr. (pronounced Clayberg) was riding a range as fabled as Pecos Bill's. The liege lord of all the King ranches and all the King ranchers was winding up the great fall roundup on his many pastures. With his hard-riding vaqueros, amid the dust and acrid smell of burning flesh, Bob Kleberg threaded his horse in & out of the milling hundreds of cherry-red cows and their calves. Lean-faced, gimlet-eyed, with the brim of his Stetson hat upswept in King Ranch fashion, Bob Kleberg told his vaqueros with swift gestures and quick Spanish phrases which...
Next, the two Yale researchers tried bees, which have much more complex reactions. The bees acted like the cockroaches, crawling frustrated outside a heat-transparent window with sweet-smelling honey vapor behind it. Apparently both cockroaches and bees could smell vapors at a distance from their antennae. This may explain how certain creatures, such as male moths seeking their females, seem able to detect odors far downwind...