Word: dalmatian
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Senior Writer Michael Demarest, author of the cover story, developed an affinity for animals on his father's farm in Essex, England, and has since owned a Dalmatian, a fox terrier, three bassets, one Great Pyrenees and a pride of kittens. Modern Living Reporter-Researcher Audrey Ball shares an unlikely menagerie with her daughter Tracy, 8: their tabby, Leslie, five delicious goldfish and two tantalizing white mice. Other pet owners include Managing Editor Henry Grunwald, whose wire-haired terrier Bravo resembles Asta in the Thin Man movies of the '30s; Assistant Managing Editor Richard Seamon, who is putting...
...long last NBC has ended its great host hunt to replace the late Frank McGee on Today (TIME, July 15). After Front Runners Tom Brokaw and Garrick Utley had made it clear that they would not be caught feeding dog food to a dalmatian before breakfast, the network found a more easygoing newsman...
...dreams Swimming with calico carps And riding Dalmatian giraffes Climbing bougainvillea vines into the skies I treasure your happiness As you hopscotch in the early rain Or tag me with bean bags And kiss my bruised neck ... -Bill Bonanno from an untitled poem to his daughter Gigi...
...well be difficult to picture a black and white Dalmatian perched atop a screaming fire engine of bright lime yellow, but that peculiar color combination is beginning to appear in fire departments round the nation. Thanks to extensive research by such men as Dr. Stephen Solomon, an optometrist and a member of the Port Jervis, N.Y., volunteer fire department, more and more fire chiefs have been made aware of a stark physiological fact: people are red-blind at night. Says Dr. Solomon, who has published a number of articles on color research: "The color red is one of the least...
...crucial location as the land bridge between Europe and Asia inevitably makes it a scene of struggle among the superpowers. The Soviet Union, which has never given up trying to bring breakaway Yugoslavia back into the orthodox Communist fold, has an additional goal -a seaport on Yugoslavia's Dalmatian Coast for its big Mediterranean fleet. In a brilliant flanking tactic, China is showing an increasingly protective interest in Rumania and Yugoslavia; the object is to prevent the Soviets from moving freely against either country without having to fear Chinese retaliation against Mongolia and the eastern Soviet borders...