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...spoken, sobersided sincerity during his public appearances in Washington. But let him get a whiff of a spring-fresh Texas range dotted with cattle and Angora goats, and suddenly he comes on like a cross between a teen-age Grand Prix driver and a back-to-nature Thoreau in cow boy boots...
...point, Johnson pulled up near a small gathering of cattle, pushed a button under the dashboard-and a cow horn bawled from beneath the gleaming hood. Heifers galloped toward the car while photographers clicked away and the President looked pleased. As he drove, Johnson talked about his cattle, once plunged into what one startled newswoman called "a very graphic description of the sex life of a bull...
...grants to buy stock or equipment to raise their income to minimum living levels. The idea is to keep farmers from joining the surplus of unskilled labor in the cities. Argues Shriver: "It is cheaper for the taxpayers to pay once to buy a low-income farm family a cow than to pay for milk for the children of that family day after day in the city." A more controversial provision would set up nonprofit corporations to buy up large tracts of land, improve it for efficient farming, then sell the land in economically sized subdivisions to low-income families...
...Christian Century, which used to take pride in being "An Undenominational Weekly" and now takes equal pride in being "An Ecumenical Weekly," will soon have a new editor. Stepping down is scholarly Harold E. Fey (rhymes with sky), 65, whose zesty crusades and courageous sacred-cow punching have made Chicago-published Century a well-read and well-heeded organ of Christian unity since he succeeded the late Paul Hutchinson in 1956. Fey says, tongue in cheek: "Our editors retire at 65 because Dr. Hutch inson did. I believe he was right. Old men often get irresponsible because they know they...
Foremost among the animal sculptors was Antoine-Louis Barye, a man who never traveled farther from Paris than the tranquil cow country of nearby Barbizon. A student of the early romantic painter, Baron Gros, he was an apprentice metal chaser at 14, and later a goldsmith. He went to museums and libraries to study stuffed animals and see pictures of them in their natural habitats, visited zoos to watch them in motion, measured their anatomies after they had died. So vividly did Barye give life to his tiny bronzes that his contemporary, the painter Delacroix, once said...