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...gorillas for dessert, the crowd watched old movies of Bushman and listened to speeches. Then a keeper walked in with the hero's heir-apparent: four-year-old Sinbad, rigged out in a red & white striped jersey and brown corduroy trousers. Sinbad was finally coaxed to pull the cord parting the curtains which covered the mounted Bushman. While flashbulbs popped, little Sinbad took one look at the glowering giant, grabbed his trainer's legs and tried his frantic best to tuck his head between them...
...injury is diagnosed as a "dislocation and slight fracture of the third cervical vertebra." "Fortunately," said the doctor, "there was not enough dislocation to cause any pressure on the spinal cord." He will be immobilized in a neck traction for the next three to six weeks...
...letter to Chapman, sarcastically pointing out that homestead scrip was never intended to help start a farm "at the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico." Willis demanded to know why Chapman, who usually acts on mineral lease applications in a matter of days, has let months pass without denying Cord's claims. By last week Chapman had still taken no action, but Interior officials said privately that Cord's claims will be tossed out. Another possible obstacle: Congress may pass a bill, now pending, to return the tidelands title to the states. In any case, Cord is prepared...
...Cord and his friends began buying up scrip from heirs. In 1947, they laid claim to ten borax-rich acres in California's Mojave Desert. The Interior Department refused to recognize Cord's claim on the ground that his scrip could not be used for mineral land. Cord's appeal is still pending in court...
Watered Titles. After the Supreme Court ruled that the Federal Government owns the long-disputed tidelands in 1947, Cord said that he and associates loaded up on certificates (total outlay: more than $1,000,000) permitting them to claim more than 4,000 acres of land. Last February, Cord filed claims on land containing 92 oil and gas wells off the coast of Louisiana with estimated reserves of oil worth $100 million. He argued the land was unoccupied, since the court decision had made the owners of the wells mere squatters. Last year, Cord filed claims to more land...