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...Babcock, one of the foremost exponents of "the livestock economy," had developed a symbol to tell the story. Bab-cock's "Unimal" is a queer creature with the face of a calf, the crest of a rooster, the forequarters of a sheep, the udder of a cow, the wings of a turkey and the hindquarters of a pig (see cut). The critter represents a composite of the kind of products farmers should raise more of and consumers should eat more...
...Here," wrote Norcott, "huddled together at a counter under unearthly neon lights, livid-hued customers sip their grisly 'shakes' or study a menu card which offers a wide selection of chemical concoctions made from substances utterly foreign to the milk-giving cow. For as little (or as much) as one shilling ninepence, the determined pleasure seeker may numb his insides with a 'frosted chocolate snowball' (frozen soya bean flour with mock cocoa gravy), a 'Hollywood Delight' (cold soya stew with ice vegetable jam), a 'Moo-moo Special' (mixed leftovers studded with damaged...
Last week in the dark oak solemnity of a King's Bench courtroom, Mother Moo-moo's menu became the principal evidence in a libel action brought against Norcott and the Daily Mail by the proprietors of the real-life Moo Cow Milk Bars of London. Moo Cow Director Frederick Abdela, who told the court that he himself was often known as Mr. Moo, declined to see anything humorous about Norcott's article. It was, said Abdela, "a cynical and horrible criticism of a business which could only be taken...
Finding for Satirist Norcott, the jury decided that Mother Moo-moo's was not a Moo Cow...
...numbers drawn daily in great secrecy by the game's racketeer bankers. The numbers on which wager-loving Brazilians gamble represent 25 different animals. A sequence of four consecutive double numbers is assigned to each animal, ranging from the eagle (01, 02, 03, 04) to the cow (97, 98, 99, 00). Odds depend on whether a player stakes his bet just on the animal-any one of four possibilities-or on a combination of numbers...