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...sheep ate mostly hot apples for their meals (when they weren't eating grass and dancing about the meadow), and sometimes they took the apples and polished them up real bright and gave them to the goats. The fox decided that the sheep would do just as well if they ate cold apples, and it would be much cheaper not to have to cook the apples every day. But the sheep baaaaed a little, so he gave every fourth sheep a hot apple and told them to share the delicacies with their fellow sheep who had cold apples...

Author: By Eric B. Fried, | Title: Derek the Duck and John the Fox | 4/29/1978 | See Source »

...Street Irregular, he then traced the suspect sawdust to a maker of wooden window frames. There, Jones found, the manufacturer had, quite legally, sprayed a wood preservative containing dieldrin on his lumber to protect it against infestations of woodworms. The mice took in a little sawdust each time they ate the food pellets. While the amount of dieldrin was not great enough to kill short-lived mice, Jones reports in Nature, it was certainly enough, over time, to do in the owls, which fed almost exclusively on what to them were tasty but, alas, tainted rodents...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: The Owl Caper | 4/10/1978 | See Source »

Marilu maintains that Johnny is "definitely a one-woman man, very selective. He's not the kind of person you worry about at a party." Marilu and Johnny moved in together back in Manhattan, played out their fantasies of London fog and foreign intrigue on the Upper West Side, ate tuna melts and guacamole (never at the same sitting), listened a lot to the sound track from Last Tango in Paris, and even worked together in a show called Over Here! By the last night of the show, Travolta had resolved to try his luck Out There. In Hollywood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: High Steppin' to stardom | 4/3/1978 | See Source »

Religion became a crisis for all the brothers except Eddie. Dilly abandoned faith altogether. Wilfred deserted his father's Evangelical plainness for High Church Anglo-Catholicism with its in cense, vestments and Roman-style ritual. Ronnie dismayed everyone: in a passion ate search for authority, he "went over" to Rome, and became his adopted church's bright star as newspaper columnist, radio preacher and witty apologist for the faith. Somehow the family ties managed to survive. Even after Ronnie's conversion, the brokenhearted bishop could sign his letters, "With overflowing love, dearest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Family Fair | 3/20/1978 | See Source »

That night the four of us dined together in Jim's cabin, drank wine, ate peanuts and watched the pine and spruce wood fire while we ran our bare feet through the deep shag rug. Jim and Mary Lyn did most of the talking. They talked mainly about the Junior Patrol, to which they had both belonged, and about some of the people on it: Peter Fader, who saved a man's life once, Joe Ward, the hottest skier at Winter Park, and Bob Patterson, the patrol leader before Jim, Jim's best friend on the patrol, and Mary...

Author: By Harry W. Printz, | Title: Tonto and the Ranger Hit the Jackpot at 10,000 Feet, or, Diamond Jim Cleans Out the Moffat Tunnel | 3/11/1978 | See Source »

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