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...roughly contemporary with the late great D. H. Lawrence-and the theme of The Go-Between is pretty much that of Lady Chatterley's Lover. Yet the two books are as different as life and death. Where Lawrence horrified the English-speaking world by treating a sacred cow as if it were a bucking bronco, Author Hartley, 25 years later, shares (with many others of England's contemporary novelists) a desire to polish rather than pioneer. For all its virtues, The Go-Between is a straightforward case of what happens when sacred cow meets perfect gentleman...
...Townsville west to Mount Isa, on one of the worst stretches of road in Australia, they wallowed in talcum-fine sand or crunched across sharp shale that ripped tires to ribbons. Rocks tore into gas tanks and crumpled fenders. Two cars turned over. A Ford Zephyr plowed into a cow, tossed the animal into the air and caught it on the motor hood. Zephyr and cow were flattened beyond repair...
Last week, casting sentiment to the winds, the city fathers of New Delhi took action at last against the 4,000-odd free cows and bulls at large in their city. A task force of 100 picked cow catchers, armed with ropes and long poles, gathered each night at dusk near the municipal post office for briefing. In deep secrecy, lest the cow owners foil their plans, the posses deployed to strategic spots in the city, blocking off the ends of streets and side alleys. Their main idea was to trap the vagrants and drive them into a temporary pound...
...week's end, working against odds, Delhi's cow catchers had rounded up 500 cows for shipment to a 2,000-acre government cow home in the Himalayan foothills (unless their owners chose to claim them and pay a fine). This week they plan to go to work on the city's bulls...
...While touring some farm buildings at Pennsylvania State College, mild-mannered Secretary of Agriculture Ezra Taft Benson was asked by a brash photographer if he could milk a cow. His dander up, Farmer Benson reached for the nearest teat, proved his skill by squirting a jet of milk into the photographer...