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...chronicle of Soviet repression by the author of The Gulag Archipelago. This was Solzhenitsyn's 629-page account of his 13-year struggle to survive as a writer in his homeland until he was arrested and dispatched to the West against his will. The book is called The Calf Butted the Oak-a Russian proverb that suggests a lonely struggle against an overwhelming power, in this case the Soviet state...
Reasoning that a puncture would be less painful where there were fewer nerves, he pulled up his left pants leg, exposing a skinny calf and a sagging sock, and began scraping. The cut was not clean, and Horowitz forced a muttered "fuck." The grad students smiled...
...windswept cornfield near the aptly named Minnesota farming community of Pillager last week, a farmer placed the barrel of a 22-cal. pistol against the head of a three-month-old calf and pulled the trigger, felling the animal instantly. Another farmer then slit the calf's jugular vein. Its carcass was dragged to a freshly dug trench and kicked in. Another calf was shot and disposed of in the same manner, then another and another, until by midafternoon almost 300 head had been destroyed and piled in the pit. The day's last kill was a sackful...
COLORADO. He is still given to wearing polished, calf-length boots and three-leaf-clover cuff links, but handsome Gary W. Hart, 36, now a Denver attorney, has matured considerably since he directed George McGovern's campaign in 1972. Running for the Democratic nomination for Senator, Hart took much more pragmatic and moderate positions on defense and social issues than his old mentor did, going so far as to advocate a reduction in welfare doles and a new emphasis on public-service jobs and private employment...
Special Magic. Steer wrestlers, whose goal essentially is to pin cattle to the ground in the fastest possible time, engage in hand-to-horn combat with animals four times their size. Calf ropers have developed a special magic with a lasso-to say nothing of training their horses to keep the rope taut while the roper ties together three of the calf s legs...