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Died. Frasier, twentyish, veteran circus lion who earned nomination as 1972's National Father of the Year; after a brief illness; in Laguna Hills, Calif. Despite advancing age and a lengthy layoff from circus duties, Frasier returned to show business by fathering 35 lion cubs in an 18-month period. The feat won accolades from a legion of senior citizens, who adopted him as their mascot, and a lion's share of royalties for his owners, Lion Country Safari, Inc., from Frasier T shirts, watches and barbecue aprons...
This convention was run with unaccustomed efficiency, dignity, and remarkably little circus. By the time Edward Kennedy had delivered the finest speech of his career in introduction of the equally eloquent, if folksier. Senator McGovern, the Democratic Party had passed a turning point in its history. The delegates linked arms and sang "We Shall Overcome," an inspiring tribute to the event, the mood, the unity they had created from the wreckage of Chicago...
...still be in the circus when I'm laughing, laughing...
...have any use for it. There is no excuse to limit the usefulness of my body to my lifetime." Some also decide in favor of dissection as a reaction to the expense and emotional upheaval of traditional burial rites. "My mother's funeral was more like a circus than a day of reflection on death," says Mrs. Joyce Winslow, 25, of Los Angeles. "I want more to come out of my death than just bills." In choosing which institution will inherit their remains, most people pick one with which they have been associated. But whim is also a factor...
Hunt describes the trial as a morose circus. The prosecutor is a plodding Percheron pitted against a couple of clownish counsels for the defense. One of them addresses the jury: "I leave thk with you, and I know that when you consider this case from all of its aspects every part of the statements, and the beatings, and the lack of will, and lack of intellect-do you think that these boys, lacking practically any education (that's another item to be considered by you)-I say that the resistance here was overcome by force...