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...Miguelin do? He strolled up to El Cordobés' bull, put one hand on its shoulder, another on its rear end, and spun it right around in a circle. Then he kissed the bull on the nose and strutted off. "Boy," Willie told Myra, "anyone can cow those bulls...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bullfighting: The New Aficion | 6/21/1968 | See Source »

...characters is an emotional cripple. Phil Hogan is "misbegotten" because his spirit is as mean and flinty as the rocky Connecticut land he farms. His daughter Josie is "misbegotten" because she weighs 180 Ibs., stands 5 ft. 11 in., and is, in her own eyes, "a big, rough, ugly cow of a woman." A virgin who shams wantonness, Josie is wildly in love with Landlord Jim Tyrone Jr., a dead soul embalmed in alcohol. Tyrone is, of course, another portrayal of O'Neill's elder brother who also appears in Long Day's Journey Into Night...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Old Plays: A Moon for the Misbegotten | 6/21/1968 | See Source »

...next application of the new technique, Physiologist Edwards believes, will be with such animals as sheep and cows. Most mammals can be induced to produce extra eggs, he says, by hormone treatments. Thus an impregnated cow could produce as many as four embryos that could be flushed out, sex-identified and selectively reimplanted. Since milk-producing cows are far more valuable than a plethora of bulls, the practice promises economic advantages. Human sex determination will be far more difficult, the scientists caution. Obtaining human eggs, fertilizing them on the laboratory bench and culturing the early embryos to the point where...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Genetics: Choosing the Sex of Rabbits | 6/7/1968 | See Source »

...Lincoln, and two of them were Kennedy advance men. To some, it seemed as if McCarthy had already given up on Nebraska. But he toughened his approach to the extent of needling Kennedy repeatedly, accusing him of such failings as not knowing from which side to milk a cow (from the animal's right) and voting against meat-import restrictions. But he got little response from the cattlemen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Democrats: Tarot Cards, Hoosier Style | 5/17/1968 | See Source »

...education and intelligence, says: "I still believe the Bible when it states that Jesus walked upon the water and Jonah was swallowed by a great fish. No one has yet come up with any evidence to the contrary [April 5]." There is not a shred of evidence that the cow did not jump over the moon, or that Cinderella's coach was not turned into a pumpkin at midnight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Apr. 19, 1968 | 4/19/1968 | See Source »

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