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...racing quarterhorse is a blood brother of rugged, hard-working range horses. Match races for high stakes have been common ever since the first quarterhorses were broken, and more than one thoroughbred owner has been parted from his bankroll by a glib Texan with a fast-striding cow pony. "I can remember them betting suitcases of cash around Houston," recalled one oldtimer...
Whatever the military reasons for Khrushchev's decision, its timing and tone were clearly designed with the primary and primitive object of creating an aura of terror. The immediate object was 1) to divide and cow the Western powers themselves in the approach to the negotiation table, 2) to frighten the neutrals into clamoring for Western concessions in Berlin at any cost. In fact, he tacitly admitted as much last week to two visiting left-wing British politicians. He told them frankly that he had resumed nuclear testing to shock the West into negotiations on Germany. And, having just...
...much from a slight drop in alcohol content, say the makers, as from the removal of rice and corn "adjuncts" and a new malt recipe. Calorie counters will welcome it, but many beer drinkers with a taste for body and flavor may skip dessert instead. CJ Automatic cow-washing machine that scrubs, rinses and massages a dairy cow in 4^ sec. Called "Cowash," the bovine bathhouse ($3,500 installed) promises a revolution in dairy production, especially for dairymen who live in states (California, Arizona, Florida) where laws require that dairy cattle be thoroughly washed before milking. By the usual inefficient...
...yellow cow by German Expressionist Franz Marc looks like something out of a child's nursery rhyme. Small Seurat peasants bend to their toil near some childlike magic created by Paul Klee and a few austere and haunting landscapes by Lyonel Feininger. And near them hang the museum's latest acquisitions-two perfect chrysanthemums, one in pencil, the other in watercolor-done by Piet Mondrian in the days before he began painting his color-laden grilles...
...Princess Margaret, 30, showed a sample of her glittering new maternity wardrobe at a Fortune Theater performance of a satirical revue called Beyond the Fringe, which sniped at everything from the Establishment to Shakespeare. Predictably, the princess gave every outward indication of savoring the pungent aroma of roasted sacred cow...