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...Terrific," Shriver kept saying, and at the New York State Fair in Syracuse, his press secretary groaned: "I hope the Secret Service can keep him off the rides." They did, but they could not keep him from milking a cow or, in Springfield, Mass., from losing a pool game to an old woman while the senior citizens waited to hear him speak...
...French Council of State set out some guidelines intended to help Frenchmen decide if they had a nom ridicule-a ridiculous, insulting or otherwise unappealing surname-that they could legally change. In the field of animals, from which a number of French surnames are taken, a Monsieur Duck, Cow, Camel, Ass or Snipe would be allowed to change his name, but a Monsieur Ox, Bull, Goat, Nightingale or Leopard would not. Nouns such as tripe, cheese, cemetery and cuckold, and adjectives like hideous and ugly were frowned on as surnames; but unaccountably, villain and pimp were acceptable. The council also...
...Amin's criticism as he sought to win support by stirring up antagonism against them among the country's 9.4 million blacks. Now he charged that the Asians were "economic saboteurs," engaged in smuggling, black marketeering, "encouraging corruption," running monopolies and currency frauds. "They only milked the cow; they did not feed it," he said. He decreed that businesses belonging to the expelled Asians will be turned over to Uganda's black citizens. Any Asians who stay beyond the deadline, Amin said ominously, would "be sitting in the fire...
...players generate a sparkly and engaging atmosphere, as they run the gamut from pure kneeslapping comedy to bawdy jokes and nude appearances. Pan and Cupid swing rosy-cheeked down from thereafters, babies are eaten alive, a sexy maiden is transformed for punishment by Juno into a credible cow with amazingly bovine expressions, a jive-ass-hipster Zeus with greaser shades trysts with earthling maidens, and the verdict is pronounced upon Narcissus. "The sucker came up from inside of him, and that's a rumble nobody can cool...
...benefits expected from vampire control are manifold: a marked decrease in outbreaks of both human and animal rabies and other infections carried by the bats; an increase in the weight of beef cattle, and a comparable increase in milk production-for a cow that is being bled by vampires may yield only 20 quarts of milk a day as against a normal 30. There is no danger of the vampire's becoming extinct, says Mexican Biologist Raul Flores Crespo. "We can reduce the population, but we cannot totally destroy it. The vampire can return to the jungle and live...