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Like a camel driver urging his beast to get up off its knees. French Premier Pierre Mendès-France cajoled and prodded the French National Assembly towards the decision it had balked at for years. Now both France's allies and France's enemies demanded that the issue of German rearmament be met, and Mendès promised that France would declare itself...
...first kill, after performing the whole classic repertory of passing the charging beast, he stunned the aficionados with a new pass of his own. He started it daringly, with his back to the bull, the red cloth muleta to his right. Moving the cloth and pivoting, he pulled the animal clear around him, letting the bull's left side scrape his body as the sharp left horn grazed his chin. Clean sword work followed, and the crowd awarded him both the bull's ears and its tail, symbolic of a top performance. For his second fight...
...pound, but time and again the cornered cows would charge their pursuers and escape, frightening the wits and the sleep out of many Delhi citizens dozing in cots on the streets. When finally trapped, the cows would lie down and 8 or 10 people would have to roll each beast to the pound...
...cage at the London Zoo to observe their mating habits. He anticipates a certain fame as the first white man to see and record what native reports suggest is "a ceremonial so poetic, so apparently conscious that, if it were true it must mark a stage between the highest beast and Man." When a government interloper tries to requisition Percy for a suicidal rocket project, the professor decides that nobody is going to make a guinea pig out of his monkey-or vice versa. By that time he knows what ails Percy. The unhappy ape, gazing "forlornly...
There are about 400 research projects now under way in the U.S. testing chlorpromazine on man and beast to find the limits of its usefulness and its possible dangers. Late this month 12,000 doctors at the A.M.A.'s annual convention in San Francisco will have a chance to see exhibits describing what has been learned. Papers on the subject are being published. Though the drug is now available on prescription, it is recommended so far only for vomiting and in mental illness because much has yet to be learned about...