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...cattle breeding, the name of the game is to improve the strain. Thus ranchers think nothing of importing desirable cattle from halfway round the world to crossbreed with their own herds. In New Zealand, however, cattlemen recently ran afoul of the country's strict animal quarantine laws in trying to obtain prized French breeding animals. Now, using sophisticated biological manipulation, they have overcome the problem...
...youths were under sentence as wayward, and 221 of them, including the three girls, were out on parole or probation. They will now all go free, unless the state appeals. Says Judge Kaufman: "The state will simply have to find different ways to treat these youths. Foster homes, halfway houses-but not penal institutions...
...Princeton and Penn are the heavy favorites, Harvard and Dartmouth are genuine challengers, and when the four clash in contests at Philadelphia and Princeton this weekend, the Ivy title race will be halfway settled...
...state senate, Morrissey told me how he had left detailed instructions for the volunteers about how he wanted the precinct canvass organized. He explained that he had been forced to go to Jackson for a couple of days. When he returned, he found that the volunteers had gotten only halfway through...
...need something like black magic to survive the punishing eight-hour Havasu marathon. Topping 100 m.p.h. on the straightaway and jouncing through treacherous wakes, the streamlined craft are, as Driver Bill Muncey says, "delicate mechanisms that run on the ragged edge of blowing up every minute." Indeed, by the halfway mark in last week's race, crackups and conk-outs claimed 26 of the 94 starters...