Word: dogged
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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President Liu Shao-chi last week was depicted in wall cartoons as Don Quixote charging against Mao's teaching. Beside him, as Sancho Panza, rode Liu's chief ally against Mao, Party Secretary Teng Hsiao-ping. A less kind cartoon showed Liu as a barking dog being drowned under the sun of Mao's teachings, and Liu's wife was crudely caricatured as a prostitute. That catty note may well have been the inspiration of Mrs. Mao, who likes to go by her screen name of Chiang Ching, which she acquired as a grade...
Miami's Dr. Clifford C. Snyder got interested in the toxicology of snake venoms after his prized dog died of a rattlesnake bite. In the laboratory he extracted snake venom, purified it, laced it with radioactive iodine-131, and injected it into the hind legs of dogs. Most of the venom stayed in the immediate area of an untreated wound for about 20 minutes, Dr. Snyder found, but with a tourniquet around the leg it stayed in place almost twice as long. Crosscutting and suction removed very little venom, so Surgeon Snyder decided that the most effective...
Sixty years have passed since Gustaf made his first purchase: a hexagonal famille rose dish of the Ch'ien Lung period. In the interim he has bought about 2,400 objects for his collection which he works at with as much archaeological curiosity as artistic love. Even the dog he gave the late Queen Louise is a Pekinese named Eisei, and she laps water from a modern Scandinavian imitation of an ancient Chinese stoneware bowl placed on a square of Chinese carpet in the palace's museum room...
...whimsy is flimsy in this filler thriller, but the bulldog idea never quite lets go, and the last scene has real comic bite. When the Kremlin finally twigs the Trojan dog, poor Stanley is captured by some nasty-looking Russian agents and, while still in a coma, transformed by Russian surgeons into history's first Trojan jackass...
Magnani, undaunted, beamed: "What do you think of the team of Menotti and Magnani on Broadway?" Well, maybe - but for now, Menotti was looking for a little peace and quiet. Said he: "I'm going back home to my dog in Mount Kisco, New York...