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Even as the four-engined Sacred Cow roared bumpily westward from Washington, Dean Acheson was mulling over the lines of his speech so that no phrase would be lost in rough-edged delivery. In the ornate presidential suite of San Francisco's St. Francis Hotel, he was at it again, reading it over to his aides, experimenting with tricks of rephrasing and deciding precisely where an upsweep of his spectacles-case would lend the best visual punctuation. The Secretary of State wanted no misunderstandings of what...
Standen has decided that scientists are overbearing, overpraised, and overindulged. In a sweeping and savage little book called Science Is a Sacred Cow (Button; $2.75), he tries to tell...
...infallible and above criticism. This, says Standen, "is a delusion . . . What with scientists who are so deep in science that they cannot see it, and nonscientists who are too over-awed to express an opinion, hardly anyone is able to recognize science for what it is, the great Sacred Cow of our time...
...Holy Ghost, a speculator in shady business, a knave with hands of silk . . . Pawley came to Havana and said: "I have come to exchange the old streetcars for modern buses to benefit the population.' But what he really intends to do is exchange the goat for the cow...
...bicycle soon became the sacred cow of the Bermudas, and later, the rights of automobiles to infringe on the bicycles was severely questioned: That the Bermudans tended to discourage automobiles is still evident; speed limit on the highway is 20 m.p.h., and in urban areas, 15 m.p.h. For this reason the visiting motorist must keep a sharp eye open for careening bikes. A specially dangerous object is the "souped-up" bicycle...