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...testing is the kind of nonsense that directors' assistants have assistants deal with in the U.S. But Gleason, who dreamed up Gigot because "I got fed up with seeing those psychological deals where Tab Hunter falls in love with a goat." wanted to do the film on location in Paris with French actors and crew...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Movies Abroad: Magnificent Muttonhead | 5/5/1961 | See Source »

...Game. North Viet Nam's sly, goat-bearded President Ho Chi Minh is getting big help from both Russia and Red China, and his favorite tactic is to play one ally against the other. For a thousand years, China dominated Viet Nam. and it was from China that Ho Chi Minh got the supplies to win at Dienbienphu. More recently, Peking sent him 8,000 technicians, is building him a steel mill and training Muong tribesmen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: North Viet Nam: Poor Neighbor | 3/31/1961 | See Source »

Pets? Poet Gavin Maxwell, grandson of famed Natural Historian Sir Herbert Maxwell, has investigated them all: a lemur, a bush baby, a wildcat, a rail, five wild geese, a dozen tropical birds, a goat that jumped on the kitchen table, and a cow that strolled upstairs one day and almost gave birth on the landing. Otters, he proclaims in this lyric celebration of the beast he loved the best and of the wild Scottish coast they romped along together, are the greatest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Poet & an Otter | 3/24/1961 | See Source »

...trophy case the head of Navy goat (55 to 39), the varsity has undefeated since its last appointment Haven. Today, however, past glory for little...

Author: By Peter S. Britell, | Title: Swimmers Will Meet Yale or Eastern Championship | 3/4/1961 | See Source »

Fortunately, however, the University still contains a small minority dedicated to the 'rag'--the student practical joke. In the past six years, 'raggers' have tethered a goat on Merton Chapel roof, driven an Austin down a Botany Department corridor, rolled a barrel into a graduate student maternity ward at 2 a.m. (the authorities gave the culprit a second chance and he was expelled a year later for setting fire to a dean's mattress), shot and barbecued a member of the Magdalen College deer-park, and painted new pedestrian crosswalks in improbable places at the dead of night. Shortly after...

Author: By Rupert H. Wilkinson, | Title: Oxford College Combines Luxury, Austerity | 2/17/1961 | See Source »

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