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Davis. A onetime cow college, fattened since 1951 by the addition of a college of letters and science. Davis has a collection of bright young Ph.D.s, a small-town cohesiveness rare in the university complex, and 3,000 acres for 2.320 students...
While cleaning up the farm this spring we hauled off a beautifully weird collection of burned-out furnace grates and twisted baling-wire arabesques-dumping them in a cow pasture against a tree. The effect is much the same as that conveyed by the U.S. grotesquerie of steel birds ranged about the U.S. Pavilion's pool and tree...
...would be a good time to sell short because of a falling market. A frenetic promoter, he once called in his ad manager and announced: "I've got an idea that will knock the Jews in this town on their butts. We're going to send cows to Israel." He got Bernard Goldfine to donate the first cow toward a project that fell flat only when Fox discovered that New England livestock could not survive in the Middle East climate...
...over two of Brazil's states, Minas Gerais and Sáo Paulo, health workers were directing homeowners last week in what looked like a most unsanitary task: coating the walls inside thousands of mud huts with a mixture containing cow dung. As a result, Dr. Mario Pinotti, running the campaign from his modernistic 18th-floor office in Rio, was confident that thousands of lives would be saved...
...used to throw stones at their nests, but the nests never cracked. They're like iron. Why?" A research project was hurriedly launched, provided the answer: ovenbirds in Sao Paulo build their rock-hard, crackproof, oven-shaped nests with a mixture of sand and cow dung...