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...Brookfield, the chairman of the board of selectmen is Dairy Farmer Charles Keeler. His phone is still listed. Standing in his barnyard, a seasonal bog, he says, "You can plow snow, but not mud. There's not much you can do about mud except wait for it to go away. The only thing to do is add gravel-18 inches is a pretty good surface-but mud season occurs before the town gravel pit melts...
...five-and six-year-olds through their "do-re-mis" and "ABCs." Old Macdonald Had a Farm, an old stand-by that may not bring them out of their seats back home, also seemed to hit just the right note with the youngsters. Every time Vereen made a barnyard-animal sound, the children squealed with delight. Vereen-who played Chicken George in TV's Roots and is a song-and-dance veteran of Broadway (Pippin)-was pleased with his performance, but admitted to feeling "a bit shaky." Said he: "I was afraid of being too emotional and teary-eyed...
...doorway: SOME PIG, RADIANT, and so on. The astonished farm folk put away their thoughts of slaughter; they no longer regard Wilbur as pork, but as a tourist attraction, and even a celebrity who enjoys the favor of higher powers. Sweet Wilbur will survive to grow old in the barnyard. He gratefully sighs, "It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer...
Among the olive-drab trains herded in the gloom of Paris' Gare de Lyon, the newcomer stands out like a peacock in a barnyard. Low-slung, sleek and chic, a space-age apparition in orange, gray and white, this peacock can fly. It is the fastest train on earth, capable of 236 m.p.h...
...looked a typical barnyard scene, when a Holstein dairy cow named Flossie gave birth at New York City's Bronx Zoo last week. Flossie, as would any good bovine mother, promptly began licking the calf, hovered protectively over it, and within an hour started to nurse it. But for zoo officials-indeed, for all animal lovers concerned with preserving endangered species-this blessed event was something very special. Flossie's offspring was not an ordinary black-and-white Holstein calf but a baby gaur (rhymes with flower), a rare type of wild ox that lives in the remote...