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...bolted, but Whacker had barred my only avenue of escape with a cage containing an amorphous, feather-covered mass of seemingly organic matter, labelled "Boneless Chicken (Szechuan...

Author: By Richard S. Weisman, | Title: One Day At The p-3 Facility... | 2/15/1977 | See Source »

WHACKER BEGAN explaining, so quickly that I was thankful I had brought my tape recorder. "Today we're mostly working on food company contracts," he began. "Big food--that's the name of the game, yep, yep. You saw that boneless chicken over there, right...

Author: By Richard S. Weisman, | Title: One Day At The p-3 Facility... | 2/15/1977 | See Source »

That's when I made my getaway. Up the stairs past the sleeping boneless chicken, past a bowl of goldfish knitting woolen sweaters, past a lobster wearing a bib that said "Kosher," and out into the yard, where I hid in six-foot tall blades of grass which were reading copies of Pravda. I made it to my car, but to my chagrin, it was being eaten--by the very dog whose invitation to whist I had foolishly declined earlier in the afternoon...

Author: By Richard S. Weisman, | Title: One Day At The p-3 Facility... | 2/15/1977 | See Source »

...were being traded along with futures for frozen pork bellies, hogs, cattle and eggs. In the first half-hour of frenzied trading at Chicago's Mercantile Exchange, dealers bought and sold no fewer than 452 contracts for future delivery-the biggest opening on the exchange, they said, since boneless beef made its debut as a traded commodity in 1970. But speculators were betting that gold's price would go down, with most contracts off $15 or more from their highs earlier in the week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COMMODITIES: The Rush That Wasn't | 1/13/1975 | See Source »

Brian Tate, professor of government at Corinth University, is a brilliant, stuffy fellow, wickedly mocked by his own short stature. Wendy, a boneless counterculture chicken enrolled in one of his graduate courses, is unaccountably but irrevocably daft about him. He is flattered but sensible; 46-year-old professors do not (or should not) have affairs with students. Yet she clings, adores and listens in damp fascination to his explanations of foreign policy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Curriculum Vitae | 7/29/1974 | See Source »

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