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...turns out that the Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory can't tether a cow in the Yard after...
...going to do it," he says. He is just finishing a critical anthology of the verses of the late James Agee, with whom he studied under Hillyer in the early '30s.* Legend says that the chair also confers upon the professor the exclusive right to tether a cow in Harvard Yard. But that, says Fitzgerald drily, "is a matter that each succeeding Boylston Professor must decide for himself." No farmer...
...gripped an elephant tusk (the elephant is his party emblem). He cried, "We must beat this government. If it continues, it will spell disaster for Ceylon!" Another antigovernment candidate derided the "socalled golden brains" of Madame Bandaranaike's Marxist Cabinet members and said they were "full of cow dung...
...Pips & Cows. There were other reasons for confusion. In the darkness, every pip on the portable radar screens and every shadow under the periodic flares that burst over Hill 327 was suspect. One night a cow wandered innocently into range and was gunned down. Three Marines returning from a night patrol approached a sentry in the dark, and two were tragically killed when the nervous guard challenged and fired on them in a single, startled motion...
...south of Zambezi Escarpment. At an elephant barbecue on the shores of Lake Kariba, while maidens of the primitive Batonka tribe danced bare-breasted to the throb of buffalo-hide drums, Batonka Chief Binga attacked the African nationalists, adding with solemn African symbolism that "you cannot change a brown cow into a white...