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...tossed from the boat was devoured by a school of piranhas in 15 minutes. When the local people wish to drive cattle across these rivers, they sacrifice the oldest cow, driving it into the river first as bait. While the attention of the piranhas is focused on consuming that animal, the rest of the cattle cross in relative safety a few feet upstream. It is not difficult to see how, given the proper opportunity, a school of piranhas could devour a human being...
...University of Nebraska, showed just how easy the courses are one day recently when he outlined eight ways to dehorn calves, using wall charts of cattle anatomy. Caustic paste on a calf's horn buttons will work, he said, but it can cause sores on the mother cow's udder after nursing. Various gouges and electric burners are also effective, but Hatch advocated a saw. "There may be lots of bleeding," he told students. "If there is, you can clamp the artery. Pull it out and take hold of it. It looks like a piece of spaghetti." Outside...
...stumble from bed, cow-heavy and floral
...drawled Eddy, all fancied up in a tuxedo and string tie. Backed by a 17-piece orchestra, he sang about humpback mules, lonesome hearts and them old cottonfields back home in a mellifluous baritone that poured out just as warm and creamy as milk fresh out of the barn cow. Mostly, the songs were samplings of his biggest hits-Anytime, Bouquet of Roses-flavored with a touch of falsetto and yodel-like loops that carried that special stamp of the hill country. Trading on a broad, half-moon smile and an ultra-relaxed manner that could charm the warts...
When the war is shown, it takes place in deserted surroundings, as if everyone cleared out when this camera crew came around. The strategic hamlet is empty except for a lone cow; the soldiers marching through a plantation seem to be going nowhere; the American presence in Vietnam comprises a dozen Marines and a machine-gun. (The Japanese are probably not entirely at fault for the inadequate coverage, because of American and South Vietnamese security measures.) Even the atrocity scenes, some of which seem staged, do not add up to a statement about the horror of war. The editing...