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Last week, when the verdict was appealed in a Paris court, Judge Paul Heifer seemed incredulous. "How many times were you assaulted?" he asked Marie-Madeleine. "If I told you," she replied, "you wouldn't believe me." The judge insisted, and Marie-Madeleine finally said that in an hour, she had been assaulted 18 times...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: France: Peerless Performance | 2/23/1970 | See Source »

...south is dairy country--the most productive in the world. Wisconsin supplies one-seventh of America's milk, more than any other state. It also leads in the production of cheese and milk cow and heifer herds. The rich dark prairie land of the southwest corner--the "driftless area" missed by the glaciers--yields wheat, corn and hogs...

Author: By James R. Beniger, | Title: A View of Wisconsin | 3/21/1968 | See Source »

...labor and delivery, immediately telephoned the news to her husband at the White House and was joshed about "being a grandma." Hearing about his son-in-law's elephant joke, Grandpa Johnson wired Luci: "I am happy for you and Patrick Sr., and Patrick Lyndon. Our best Hereford heifer is being curried for delivery, consigned to your 9-lb. son, who incidentally I know doesn't look like a donkey, and I hope that his father will quit publicizing him as an elephant. The time has come to get the Republicanism out of these Waukegan products. Love, Daddy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency: Patrick Lyndon | 6/30/1967 | See Source »

...little men, who were about 4 ft. high, wore light-colored pants, helmets and other equipment, and were "scurrying" about. UFOs were bigger and "hideous" in the sighting that was vouchsafed to Farmer Alexander Hamilton, of LeRoy, Kans., in April 1897. The hideous humanoids stole his heifer, hauled it aboard their "airship," and, "jabbering together," sailed away. "I don't want anything more to do with them," concluded Hamilton's affidavit. Most people would echo Hamilton's heartfelt prayer in the spirit of those who do not believe in ghosts and hope never...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Heavenly Bogeys | 9/2/1966 | See Source »

...going in Viet Nam." In a fascinating sideshow to the ABA sessions in Spain, Martin's Federal Reserve colleague, Board Member J. Dewey Daane, appeared in a Toledo ring and made four respectable passes with a scarlet and yellow cape at a "bull." Actually, the beast was a heifer, but the bankers wildly cheered the performance-not least because no one got hurt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Economy: How the Glow Goes | 6/3/1966 | See Source »

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