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...wings at the approach of President Reagan. This year's 50-lb. gobbler had been exposed to human contact for a couple of months to avoid a repeat performance, although in the Rose Garden one observer noted that the turkey "looked like he was on 'hides." (The fowl, which will be used for breeding, was not on tranquilizers, insisted N.T.F. representatives.) The President recalled another bird from a Thanksgiving past. Then Governor of California, Reagan had been carving the turkey, he said, when he became alarmed at the sight of blood. Subsequently, he discovered "that...
FROM THE WORD GO, nomenclature has been a serious business. In the Garden of Eden, filled with anonymous beasts of the field and fowl of the air, it represented Adam's first homework assignment. Juliet found time to agonize eloquently on the subject at great length. Even the famous Broadway lyricist T. S. Eliot `10 treated the concept with respect, calling it "a delicate matter" "It isn't just one of your holiday games," he added "You may think at first I'm as mad as a hatter when I tell you, a cat must have THREE DIFFERENT NAMES...
...dropped in on a special, eight-month-old friend-her parents were a gift from former President Gerald R. Ford during Hirohito's state visit to the U.S. in 1975. But Japan's most famous young bird seemed unimpressed with her imperial visitor. Hoping to change the fowl's nonchalance, Hirohito studied the crane avidly, then moved in to try his hand at feeding. Still no recognition, but the Emperor was not about to create a flap. For the 80-year-old Hirohito, the bird's mere existence may carry more import than her aloof manners...
After a morning with these fowl innards, employees hit the bricks, our ration of Alex's Plus in tow, and sought suitable trades with other food merchants. It's not that we didn't have pride in our own product-we downed plenty of it, as my weight will attest-but by mid-summer fruit-shakes, pepperoni pizza, and bran muffins were a welcome relief...
...flop in the marketplace because the price of more than $1,000 was too expensive for most families, while computer buffs considered the product too unsophisticated. Observes Bill Meserve, a computer analyst with the Arthur D. Little consulting firm: "The 99/4 was neither fish nor fowl...