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...CHICAGO FIRE. Half the West Side bursts into flame every 20 minutes, and who is it but Mrs. O'Leary there, coming out of the heat with an actual cow-trained to moo at crowds. Spectators are called upon to help firemen squirt the blaze from a hand-pump engine. Meanwhile, a cool operator in a fireproof booth turns up the hidden gas jets, then slowly turns them down as the fire subsides, leaving on view the pre-charred timbers of skeleton buildings...
...target through a long wire it trails behind. Three times the SS-11 was fired at the Benning show, and three times it scored a direct hit on a tank more than a mile away. At the third hit, Ike pushed his hat back, grinned and exclaimed: "Holy cow...
Under a searing sun, India's peasant plods endlessly behind his scrawny bullocks, scratching at the badly irrigated soil with tools of a thousand years ago. Most of his cow's dung cannot be used as fertilizer, for it is needed as fuel; his patch of land is tiny, and his life is mortgaged to the local moneylender or landlord. He has a deep distrust of foreigners' slick schemes for greater yields; yet the fate of all of India's 415 million depends on the stubborn peasant's ability to expand production. Six years from...
...ball, they are proving themselves equally adept at flinging insults. The main target: veteran O'Brien, a haughty sort who makes no secret of the fact that he thinks himself king of the whales. O'Brien started the war of words when he called Nieder a "cow-pasture thrower" with "atrocious form." Nieder replied angrily, accusing O'Brien of fearing to face him in direct competition. Asked Nieder at one meet when O'Brien failed to show up: "Where's the Los Angeles dodger today?" Retorted O'Brien to Nieder's charges...
...Chevy Show (NBC, 9-10 p.m.). The King and Queen of cow country, Roy Rogers and Dale Evans, work out in a waterlogged rodeo. The Aquarodeo at Marineland, Calif. includes shark busting and shark roping, a bat ray roundup and bareback whale riding...