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Senator Russell Long [TiME, Aug. 16] should be saluted by every American taxpayer. Foreign aid has too long been considered a sacred cow opposed only by Communists. When will Congress realize that the free world must stand on its own feet, not ours? Friendship isn't a purchasable commodity. Why shouldn't our policy be: friends to all, Santa Claus to none...
...Francisco's Cow Palace, Honolulu-born Carl ("Bobo") Olson weighed in a half-pound over the 160-lb. limit before defending his middleweight championship against Rocky Castellani, took an hour to sweat himself down to size, then chased Castellani around the ring for 15 uninspired rounds and kept his title...
Birth, it is clear from this scene, can no more be the subject of prurience than death can. Both are too simple and important. The cow lies slightly wrenched, the birthling in its blue caul glides gleaming into the world, the mother licks off the membrane and swallows it to help start the flow of milk, the calf staggers up blindly to the food it trusts will be there. The camera watches it all with a grave directness proper to an acolyte at a mystery, and even the incessant commentator seems to realize that the situation does not require cute...
Entree. In Quintero, Chile, a cow slipped on a mountainside, plunged through the roof of a hotel below, landed ungarnished in the dining room...
...fashions, so why should I wear them?" said Mrs. Joe DiMaggio. TV's robustious Dagmar went on record: "Frankly, honey, the instrument hasn't been made that can flatten me out." Growled Marlon Brando ungallantly: "Emphasizing women's hips is like putting falsies on a cow...