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...that is wild or too lean. Unlike many breeders, Lasater cares nothing about how the cow looks. Says Lasater: "Any breeder who gives his cows a second chance just doesn't give himself an even break. Survival of the fittest goes all the way here." Although most ranchmen frown on breeding without regard to general conformity, Lasater claims that his ruthless tactics have bred a herd free from cancer eye, pink eye, Bang's disease (contagious abortion...
Although the Crimson Tide of Alabama has ebbed to its lowest point in history on the football field (10 games, 10 losses in 1955), the university is still generous enough with its "grants in aid" to athletes to earn 1) a frown from the Southeastern Conference and 2) the services of more than 100 young men of brawn and promise. In return for the free education it gives them, most of the Alabama football, basketball and baseball players live a life apart in their own dormitory. Friedman Hall, and are regulated stiffly as to bedtime and weekend privileges, allowed little...
McKeldin saw some merit in the local brewers' objection to the high Canadian tariffs on U.S. beer, but he refused to ban Carling's in retaliation. "I frown upon restrictive tariffs maintained by this country and others," said Free Trader McKeldin. "However, American leadership toward the elimination of such trade barriers, would not be helped by similar acts of shortsighted contrariness...
Honor Beclouded. Then, with an august frown, the Senate turned to deal with Francis Case, who by devious but predictable senatorial reasoning was thought to have beclouded the honor of the entire body. Georgia's Senator Walter George was named to head the special committee investigating the Case contribution. Meek Francis Case (he was so overwhelmed by his notoriety that at one time newsmen found him hiding, face half-shielded, in a telephone booth) was the first witness...
...take off for a whole weekend. The so-called unfeminine aspects of Radcliffe girls--green book bags and Knee socks, for instance--are actually a defense mechanism against the strain of looking beautiful all the time for the Harvardman. Since both the Cambridge citizenry and the 'Cliffe administration frown on Bermuda shorts in class, girls achieve the same effect by neglecting to comb their haid or to put on lipstick. Actually this attitude has its benefits. A Harvard junior reported how shocked he was at first to have girls in his classes. Having graduated from Exeter, he used to rush...