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Ballet Lessons. "I like to work with animals," explained Foreman recently after tossing his Doberman, Stocky, into the swimming pool and riding his aging mare, Lady, around his backyard corral. "Some day I'll have as many dogs as you can count," he says. Considering the sort of dogs he buys, that could come to quite a sum. This summer Foreman paid $27,000 for yet another prizewinning German shepherd...
When Dole, 47, succeeded the hulking, amiable Rogers Morton it was, according to a White House aide, a little like a hungry Doberman pinscher taking over from a St. Bernard. Dole is articulate and often abrasive, a four-term former Congressman who suffered a World War II wound that has made his right arm virtually useless. He has been the President's most vigorous and consistent champion in the Senate since he moved up to that body in 1969. With the political woods now full of potential Democratic contenders, he has had no trouble finding new targets...
Four times in the past year, John Fretwell's air-conditioning equipment company in Dallas was broken into and robbed. Fretwell took to renting a Doberman pinscher watchdog for weekend duty, but at $75 a weekend, the protection itself seemed little better than petty larceny...
...spokesman rather than an organizer. Articulate and sometimes abrasive (TIME, July 6, 1970), Dole is expected to be rougher and sharper than the amiable and widely admired Morton. The difference, observed one White House aide, is that "Rog is a big old St. Bernard, while Dole is a hungry Doberman pinscher." One leading Republican offers an intriguing rationale for the switch: Morton was never as partisan as Nixon wanted, so Vice President Spiro Agnew took up the hatchet duties. Now Dole will eagerly perform them, while an attempt is made to soften the Agnew image and give him broader appeal...
...door. "I have to see you, Mr. Sherman," cries a pair of plaintive Brooklyn adenoids outside. "We make it a rule not to open the door after midnight," Felix answers. "We?" says the voice. Felix's tape recorder emits several terrifying growls. "Wolf and I. Wolf is a Doberman pinscher." The small voice tells him: "As God is my judge, I am a little girl all alone here in the hallway...