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...sheep killers. To work properly, guarding dogs must be introduced to sheep as pups so that by maturity they are totally at ease with the flock-and vice versa. When a predator approaches, the sheep tend to converge behind the dog. "They recognize him as a security blanket," says Zoologist Jack McGrew of Colorado State University, where Komondors have been tested for three years. Ewes in labor sometimes seek out the protection of the dog. Usually this trust is more than reciprocated. Dogs have been known to lick the newborn lambs and even cuddle them through the night to protect...
...blanket prohibition on MOSA's sales dictated by the resolution is impossible to monitor, Hagh Calkins '45, Corporation member, said yesterday, adding, "The general theory of the resolution is good, but the terms of it are not so good...
...always used trade to further political ends; the most recent example of this was the partial embargo on grain shipments to the Soviet Union after its invasion of Afghanistan. But there has never been a blanket declaration in advance of such a policy on so broad a scale. President Reagan and Secretary of State Alexander Haig support the concept of linkage. But trade veterans decry it as naive. Says one former Carter trade official: "Brock wouldn't advocate such a policy if he had more time on the job." The "anti-linkage" argument is that trade cannot be turned...
SURE AN OLD GOAT might think of carrying on an affair for thirty years with the same woman. But what if he's your father? Neil Simon gives his generation an outlet for its fantasies, sexual and otherwise. He also provides a blanket of security for the over-40 crowd by poking fun at its socially unacceptable desires. A mother might turn to her husband at the end of a play by Simon and say. "See, dear, that's why we haven't been swapping partners lately...
Fortunately, when she wakes up, McCann has her own kind of security blanket-the comforting facts. Last year the plays that she produced with her partner, Nelle Nugent, grossed more than $14 million. Since McCann and Nugent went into business less than five years ago, they have been responsible, in whole or in part, for some of Broadway's biggest hits: Dracula, The Elephant Man, Morning's at Seven, Amadeus. When they started, their colleagues referred to them simply as the girls. Now they are respectfully called the ladies-or, more appropriately, the golden ladies...