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Sugar Cane & Cow's Blood. Almost alone among Indian industrial complexes, Kirloskar has no roots in textiles...
After his return to the U.S., Parker read about a new, inexpensive contraceptive device consisting of a pliable, doubleS plastic coil (TIME, July 31). "When I learned it worked on women," says Parker, "I thought: why won't it work on cows?" It does. After elaborate experiments at the Beltsville, Md., agricultural research center, India's Food and Agricultural Ministry enthusiastically launched a pilot project in the northern province of Uttar Pradesh. Of the country's 200 million cattle, some 75% are used as beasts of burden or as milk producers. The remaining 50 million are mostly...
...last Thursday night. Perhaps a day's campaigning begun in Duluth, continued in Madison, Wisconsin, and concluded in Boston had done him in, maybe the hopelessness of his cause in the Northeast had quelled any enthusiasm, but Goldwater, having long ago descended from the rarefied, steely heights of the Cow Palace, spoke with a weary, methodical voice, like a man tramping through a bog. His campaign was at slack tide, and Goldwater showed what George Gallup et. al. have been telling us all along...
...suspect," said Sayre, "that thousands, even millions, of our countrymen this summer, viewing the extravaganzas that were produced at the Cow Palace in San Francisco and at Convention Hall in Atlantic City, felt something like the Israelites must have felt when finally they were thrust into exile . . . This summer we beheld a pair of gatherings at the summit of political power, each of which was completely dominated by a single man-the one, a man of dangerous ignorance and devastating uncertainty; the other, a man whose public house is splendid in its every appearance, but whose private lack of ethic...
...themes of peace and love: a 12-ft. by 15-ft. panel designed without fee by Painter Marc Chagall, 77, as his remembrance of U.N. Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold. "A poet always uses the same vocabulary," says Chagall, and his translucent sonnet displays his familiar metaphors of thin-lipped cow, floating patriarch and spiritual chicken. In Pocantico Hills, N.Y., the preserve of the Rockefellers, the Union Church received a stained-glass Chagall window depicting the good Samaritan, to be dedicated by the family to the memory of Philanthropist John D. Rockefeller...