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Died. Howard Edward Babcock, 61, farm-born Cornell farm economist; of a heart ailment; in Manhattan. He argued that the U.S. farm economy would be bolstered, and U.S. health improved, if farmers would raise more livestock and consumers would eat more livestock products, devised a calf-faced, rooster-crested turkey-winged cow-pig-sheep, the "Unimal" (TIME, June 19), as a symbol of his program...
...selling last week in Manhattan at a record $1.20 a lb. Cornell Farm Economist H. E. Babcock, one of the foremost exponents of "the livestock economy," had developed a symbol to tell the story. Bab-cock's "Unimal" is a queer creature with the face of a calf, the crest of a rooster, the forequarters of a sheep, the udder of a cow, the wings of a turkey and the hindquarters of a pig (see cut). The critter represents a composite of the kind of products farmers should raise more of and consumers should eat more...
...rising on such good news-and holding steady on bad-the scraggly, unsteady calf that had been born two years ago (TIME, June 14, 1948) had grown into the biggest, heftiest bull that Wall Street had seen since the wild and rampaging days...
...remember the scraggly little bull calf on TIME's June 14, 1948 cover (see cut)? Bewildered, unsteady on its feet, shrouded in ticker tape, the little fellow symbolized the baby bull market which Wall Street was nursing at the time...
...channel to Harberton, where he started a sheep and cattle ranch, young Bridges was able to make out most of what the Yahgan Indians were talking about. But an even bigger challenge confronted him. In rugged, unexplored northeastern Tierra del Fuego lived the fierce Ona tribe. Naked under their calf-length, guanaco-skin capes, the nomadic Ona stood as high as six feet in their fur moccasins, hunted their game (mostly guanaco) with bow & arrow, and spoke a language that sounded like "a man clearing his throat...