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...start all over again. This time he got it right: the Republican Party has "the greatest leader of our times-Dwight D. Eisenhower." Presumably to renominate that leader, the G.O.P. will meet for four days, beginning Aug. 20, 1956, in San Francisco's 16,954-seat Cow Palace...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: On to the Cow Palace | 2/28/1955 | See Source »

...original name was the Livestock Pavilion of the No. 1-A District Agricultural Association. But a Depression-days newsman wrote bitterly: "While people are being evicted from their homes and are walking the streets, a palace for cows is being built in Visitacion Valley." Cow Palace it has been, ever since...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: On to the Cow Palace | 2/28/1955 | See Source »

...cow named Molly and a funeral parade of drums and drummers draped in black featured the band's newest effort to replace its deceased drum, yesterday noon at Memorial Hall...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Cow Highlights Dimes Drive | 2/26/1955 | See Source »

...cow, despite bearing a sign reading "The Band Needs My Help As Well As Yours" will not be a part of new instrument, and has been returned to the Brighton Stock Yards...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Cow Highlights Dimes Drive | 2/26/1955 | See Source »

There are some 4,000,000 Bhils scattered through the arid lands of west and central India, and they are poor, even for India. A wife, a cow and a plow are enough to make a Bhil a rich man. The Bhil's special god in the Hindu pantheon is Kaladev, "the Black God." While enlightened on the subject of caste ("There is only one caste which embraces all mankind"), the god Kaladev has long blessed the Bhil custom of concealing their women under heavy sacklike cloaks that cover their heads completely. Tantia decided to liberate them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Bhils & the Odhnis | 2/21/1955 | See Source »

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