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Other farmers were subjected to days of verbal bombardment from loudspeaker trucks parked outside their houses. Gustav Pohl, 60, a farmer near Rostock, had resisted collectivization for five years, but gave in fortnight ago to the agitators. "They told me I could keep one cow and a few chickens and pigs for me and my family. I asked what they meant to give me for my land. They said they did not have any money right now . . ." Quietly, Pohl sent his daughter off to "visit" relatives in West Berlin for Easter, then packed a few things in a net shopping...
...Cow or Goat? To the council's surprise, the largely rural delegates voted unanimously to retain the custom of bride price. Observed one woman: "A bride price gives a girl a sense of her worth." Others feared that without paying a bride price, a man might say to his wife, "I got you for nothing, so you must be worth nothing." Besides, said another woman, "a bride's family can always remind themselves of their lost daughter by looking at the cows they got in exchange...
...Like a Cow?" For Indian university students, Expressionist Lerner is a new breed of cat. He is at home in one sense: "This is without question the wordiest, talkingest civilization I have ever encountered." But the talk of smugly anti-materialist intellectuals is no match for blitz-tongued Professor Lerner...
Lerner loves to provoke students ("Thrilling," says one) who spout Gandhi's idealism-and refuse to get their hands dirty in the new world. When they insist that poverty-stricken India is nonetheless "contented," Lerner snaps back: "Like a cow?" He points to the U.S. experience. A healthy discontent, says he, is the key to "social dynamism." The lack of this quality, he adds, is what ails India...
Bankrolled by Bieber, Jacobs bought horses, horses and more horses. In 1943 he found his only genuinely great thoroughbred: a red-sheened colt named Stymie, available for only $1,500. Tough as a cow pony and possessed of a champion's heart, Stymie started 131 times, won 35 races, took $918,485 to make him racing's top moneywinner up to that time...