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Extra Police. Justice Sinha exonerated Mrs. Gandhi of charges that she had used air force planes for campaign purposes, bribed voters with blankets, clothing and liquor, spent more than the $4,500 limit, and used the Congress Party's symbol (a cow and a calf) in an illicit religious appeal for votes. But he ruled that she had allowed Yashpal Kapoor, a key political aide, to campaign for her prior to quitting his government post. Justice Sinha, who is regarded as a staunchly non-political jurist, also found that the Uttar Pradesh state government had illegally assisted...
...half years later, I was dispatched to the Starling family farm to interview Robin, who had been winning blue ribbons for his calf, Dickv, at county fair cattle shows throughout northern New York. As I followed Robin through his farm chores--gingerly side-stepping cow manure--I noticed that he got around surprisingly well on his mechanical limbs. I had unnecessarily steeled myself for his physical awkwardness. The awkwardness I found instead was the shyness typical of any boy going through puberty...
...rose at his customary 5 a.m. one day this month, he could hear a cow bellowing in pain. Ketchum, who left his job as a Manhattan book editor five years ago, hurried to his barn and minutes later handed his wife a quivering, wobbly-legged newborn calf. Then he went off to care for another recent offspring: Blair & Ketchum's Country Journal, a unique combination of country charm and big-city slickness, which last week won a National Magazine Award...
...pace, circulation has sprouted from a start-up 36,000 to more than 60,000, and an encouraging two-thirds of the magazine's charter subscribers are renewing. Blair and Ketchum predict that Country Journal will be in the black early next year, fast growth for a mere calf of a magazine...
...behind the office. Blair gazes out of his office window at photogenic Mt. Wantastiguet. And Ketchum's family has become a working advertisement for the magazine's editorial pitch of self-sufficiency: they spend spare hours milking goats, making maple syrup and, of course, delivering the occasional calf...