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...follow the right-hand signal of Big Tex-a 52-ft.-high drugstore cowboy statue giving directions in a mechanical voice that sounds like a blend of Charlton Heston and Chill Wills. Then you come upon the preserve of the second Texas: the livestock exhibitions. In the Swine Building, Brobdingnagian hogs slumber peacefully in their stalls. Photographs of the various Quality Pork Champions are posted on a bulletin board in two neat rows, like so many Miss Rheingold winners on a barroom wall. The most frenetic activity takes place in the Livestock Pavilion, where coveralled owners lavish on their animals...
...Moral Chill. Brown's book is considerably more than a rich thesaurus of anecdote. A sardonic muckraker, Brown demonstrates why commercial broadcasting, now a half-century old, remains "Babbitt at 50." The moral chill of the McCarthy era still afflicts the networks. Even in their journalism there is an ever-present binary fear of Government and advertisers. Thus TV-documentary writers begin a special on corruption in Saigon-only to have it scuttled. Then they are assigned a program on patent medicines-and ordered to abandon it. Then they start work on an examination of the military-industrial complex...
...nothing upsets his plans, Nixon will become the first sitting U.S. President to visit Moscow and only the second to meet Russian leaders in the Soviet Union. Franklin Roosevelt traveled to Yalta for a fateful wartime conference with Joseph Stalin and Winston Churchill in 1945. Despite the postwar chill between the two nations, recent Presidents have been more than willing to seek better relations with the U.S.S.R. by going to Moscow. But Dwight Eisenhower's plans to visit the Kremlin crashed with the shooting down of a U.S. spy plane over Russia in 1960. At the time John Kennedy...
Afterward, the guests trooped into the chill desert night and sat wrapped in blankets at the foot of the ruins to watch fireworks and a son et lumière display of Persian history. After an hour the Shah, noticing some royal yawns and glazed eyes, mercifully rose from his chair and almost everybody took the welcome exit cue. The guests trooped back to their tents and had a whole morning to sleep before getting up for lunch, a parade and another dinner with the regal couple before flying home...
...Appeals reversed the ruling. Friendly found that the Army had not gone too far in holding that Cortright's right of protest was outweighed by the Army's interest in maintaining efficiency in all units. In dissent, Judge James L. Oakes warned: "Even a very little chill on a very big right is too much. A transfer to Texas today could be a transfer to Hue tomorrow...