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...often been deemed, especially by men who held it, a job fit only for a nonentity. It was called "the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived" (John Adams, the first Vice President), "a fifth wheel to the coach" (Theodore Roosevelt), "as useful as a cow's fifth teat" (Harry Truman), and not worth a "pitcher of warm spit" (John Nance Garner...
...Deep People." Tech girls have problems. "You feel like a cow at auction," says one. "You have to walk a mile to find a ladies' room," says another. But over the years they have made a virtue of their small numbers. "We're a powerful minority," says 19-year-old Sue Colodny. The only girl in a class gets plenty of professorial attention. "Every activity on campus wants girls," gloats one of them, and a freshman reports that getting a date required only the merest smile. "It's wild," she says...
...kill these babies while the virus is still in its usually silent incubation period. Another is that the babies are in a transition period between inherited and acquired immunity, and are therefore especially vulnerable. A third is that death may result from a violent immune reaction (anaphylactic shock) to cow's milk. But nobody knows for certain whether breast-fed babies are immune. The experts were unanimous on one point: they need more facts before they can prove or disprove any theory about the elusive causes of what they decided to call the "sudden death syndrome...
...comes from the world of imagination, which is "fancy-free and violently opposed to common sense." As Gottlieb added later: "If the models we use are the apparitions seen in a dream, or the recollection of our prehistoric past, is this less part of nature or realism than a cow in the field...
Even the police are helpful: the sheriff will often send a deputy to wake a hunter at 4 a.m. if he forgets his alarm clock. The only sour face belongs to the game warden and to the occasional cattleman whose cow comes down with colic from eating shell casings. Bird fanciers, who in some states have gotten doves classified as "songbirds" and made them illegal to hunt, fail to darken the Imperial Valley dawn. Game managers have proved that the birds' talent for dodging, plus enthusiastic mating habits, keep the dove population constant, and there is no reason...