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Fulbright, now 59, grew up in the small (pop. then about 5,000) town of Fayetteville in the Arkansas Ozarks, rode a horse three miles to school, milked the family's lone cow each day. His parents were wealthy. His stern, business-minded father Jay owned or held major interests in the town newspaper, a lumber company, a bank, a Coca-Cola bottling plant, a railroad, an ice company, and a hotel. Fulbright's mother led most of the town's civic activities, wrote a daily newspaper column on any topic that popped into her head...
...think the new opera house in Los Angeles is very lovely, and I also think you were very kind to the Chandlers, past, present and future, but regardless of how much culture they pour into Los Angeles, it will never get beyond a cow town...
...Association strode Dr. Symon Thuita to handle it. As Dr. Thuita well knew, the best way to begin any examination is by taking the patient's pulse. "If the pulse leaps like a frog," he explained, "the problem is in the throat. If it jumps like a cow, it is in the gastric system, and if it is smooth as a snake, then it is in the belly...
...Snow is a place of contrast with its nine chair lifts and slopes that range from expert to cow pasture, complete with snow bunnies that splash in the heated outdoor swimming pool at Snow Lake Lodge during the day and gambol in the lounges of several lodges at night...
...Holy cow, that's terrible! I-are you going to tell your wife? You remember how she was when the dog died. This could be worse...