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...djinn-infested Nuba is marched out of his village in a procession headed by a goat wearing a big brass bell. Victim and goat are buried alive. When the bell stops ringing, the tribesmen know that the goat and the man are dead, and the djinn is banished. Recently explorers in the Otoros came across the graves of two crippled children and a deaf-&-dumb woman. Last week police arrested 22 tribesmen for murder...
Money to Burn. In the Bitter Root Mountains, Idaho, Bob Hart went on a mountain goat hunt, needed a fire to keep from freezing, could find no kindling, had to use $100 worth of uncashed checks...
...officials had calculated the risk and were ready to take it. The alternative was former U.S. Treasury Secretary Morgenthau's nightmarish goat-pasture plan to deindustrialize Germany. It was better to give Russia an advantage in reparations than to leave Europe divided and prostrate because Germany was divided and prostrate...
...leading scorer, Trippi blocks, kicks and tackles as well as he runs and passes. He runs with legs far apart in a sort of gallop, sometimes jumps in the air just before being grabbed, and flails wildly with his feet; other times he just lowers his head and goat-butts his assailant in the stomach...
...Harry Truman stepped off the Presidential Special in Independence, Mo. an expressman called: "Hello, you old goat." Replied the President of the U.S.: "You're a long-eared rabbit." Strangers might have been shocked at the exchange. But Harry Truman and the expressman were merely greeting each other as old political opponents of the Pendergast-Shannon ("Goats" v. "Rabbits")* Democratic rivalry in Kansas City...