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...cow," wrote Mahatma Gandhi, "is the mother to millions of Indian mankind. She is a poem of pity." By tradition and training, many another devout Hindu through the centuries had assumed the same attitude toward the beasts who roam India's city streets and country lanes by the millions. It is a statutory crime in India to kill a cow. In 1944 a high-caste Hindu, who accidentally let one of his own cows strangle herself, was forced to roam the streets for three days with a halter around his neck, mooing for food and forgiveness...
...youngster, he learned golf under the stern eye of his brother Homer, who showed him how to drive a ball toward a hole in a cow pasture, and gave him a kick in the pants every time he muffed a shot...
Until three months ago, Kanab (pop. 1,287) was a peaceful, elm-shaded Mormon oasis amid the wind-worn rocks and wild hills of south-central Utah. Basically a cow town, it was a pleasant stop for tourists and a sometime location for Hollywood westerns. Three months ago, Kanab's quiet was disturbed by the discovery of commercial-grade uranium ten miles east of town...
...father and brother died in Auschwitz. My mother and I survived in Budapest because we forged identity cards that made us into Christians. My wife comes from Rumania. Her six brothers and sisters were also killed. We passed through many hardships, but now we have a cow, 250 chickens, a kerosene stove and seven acres, and two children. We have found our place . . . Nothing can move us from here...
...Galloping horses confused artists long before the Persians. To compare one prehistoric cave dweller's version (circa 20,000 B.C.) with Remington's realistic cow ponies, see cuts...