Word: cockers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...whole is entitled "No Hard Felines." But, almost as if the Poonies felt this was too subtle a dig for its prospective readers (a subset of the readership of Life?, they talk in another part of the magazine about Life's "cute miscellany snapshot of somebody's noxious cocker spaniel wearing a lampshade on its head...
...convention delegation, the scene was near-anarchy but fairly typical. Advance radio plugs had invited the populace to the airport for a "moonlight meeting" with Bobby and Ethel. A mammoth traffic jam resulted. Finally arriving in the city, Kennedy stood on his convertible's hood with his Irish cocker spaniel Freckles at his feet. At Mt. Vernon and North Champion Avenues in the Negro Near East Side, friendly crowds engulfed the car. Admirers fell over each other and into the motorcade's path; Kennedy aides had to scoop children from harm's way. One mother plunked her baby on Ethel...
When Jacqueline Kennedy comes to Cambridge, the last vestige of magisterial hauteur disappears. "He fawns over her like a cocker spaniel," harrumphs a neighbor. "He bounds out onto the lawn wreathed in smiles, escorts her into the house as though she were made of eggs, and hovers...
...ball club. First Baseman Boog Powell is (at 6 ft. 4½ in. and 246 lbs.) one of the biggest men in baseball, and he spent seven years perfecting the fine art of tobacco chewing-"the trick," says Powell, "is not to swallow." Leftfielder Curt Blefary keeps a pet cocker spaniel that has scrambled eggs and Coke for breakfast. "Ugh," says Blefary, who has been known to start his own day with clam chowder and hamburger...
...publication of a symposium on obedience that raised some critical questions about the society's rules. Hierarchical pressure last month forced the National Council of Catholic Men to cancel a four-part television series explaining the current church-wide debate over birth control. Both Father McMahon and Father Cocker were promptly disciplined by their superiors, forbidden to preach, and sent off to retreats...