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...with publications everywhere, the Loma Weekly has its problems. Reports Liberian-born Editor Miller: "We were pleased to read your article in the recent issue of TIME (May 21 ) under PRESS and note the increased circulation of newspapers throughout the world. We wanted to save the article, but a cow entered our outdoor bathing place...
Biologist Bonner's statement concerning the practicability of domesticating some algae-eating animal (a "sea pig") as a source of meat for the highly populated world of the future [May 28], recalls a description of the manatee, or sea cow, which the Spaniards apparently saw for the first time in the islands of the Caribbean Sea and noted by Francisco López de Gómara in 1552: "The flesh of the manatee tastes more like meat than like fish. When fresh it tastes like veal and when salted, like tunny, but is better and keeps well...
...breezy afternoon last week, a green-and-cream diesel train rolled into Mos cow's cavernous Kiev station with a man described in the official press, only a few years back, as "traitor, Judas, fascist, saboteur, imperialist agent, renegade," and a hundred other names in the extensive vocabulary of Communist invective. Wearing a powder-blue military blouse loaded with gold braid and ribbons, and red-striped trousers, Yugoslavia's Marshal Tito stepped out of his luxury coach to the sound of Muscovite cheers and triumphal military music...
...right to snoop and expel. The A.E.C. can expropriate farm land from a small farm and join it to a larger farm on the ground of "greater efficiency." An A.E.C. can decide a certain farm is best suited to cattle raising, and order the owner to put up cow barns, whether he can afford it or not. If a farmer rated laggard is put "under supervision," he can get a hearing before the A.E.C. But since the A.E.C. is both prosecutor and judge, he usually gets little satisfaction. He has no right to confront his accuser; the hearings are closed...
Born & Dies. O'Flaherty's chosen people are the Aran islanders, who live "in primitive simplicity, as their ancestors had lived for thousands of years." Turf and cow dung are the fuel, kelp dragged from the sea is the fertilizer; potatoes or fish are the food. A rasher of bacon represents luxury, and a dry cow may make the difference between starvation in winter and life for another year...