Word: heifers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...winsome throughout, Di committed only one small gaffe. Presented with a set of small silver bowls, she instinctively flipped one over to check the hallmark. She avoided the same mistake later, when a group of Welsh farmers presented her with two other gifts: Sandra, a seven-month-old heifer, and a ewe. "I am sorry there is only one of her," said the pleased Charles at one point. "I haven't got enough wives to go around...
...tall plastic man or gaze fondly over the fairground. Some vendors wear black armbands, but it is a futile gesture of mourning. Buying their last baked potato with sour cream and bacon, taking their last aim at ducks in the gallery shoot, or sizing up a young heifer, most visitors seem oblivious or indifferent to the fact that they are among the last to attend the Great Danbury State Fair...
With animals now so popular on Madison Avenue, the inevitable has happened: they are organizing. California Trainer Ralph Heifer has formed the Animal Guild of America. The union's initial demand is that animals receive residuals, the fees that human actors earn each time their commercials appear on the air. At present they receive only one-time flat fees. If animals are not accorded equal rights, Heifer warns, a beastly nationwide strike may be in the offing...
...lamps and candles. Alice Somers heated corn chowder on an 1887 Rollhaus wood stove, meanwhile keeping her eye on the mulled cider that simmered near by. In the barn behind his parents' 230-year-old colonial home, John Maycuk, 17, helped his Jersey cow give birth to a heifer by the light of a kerosene lantern...
These three-inch cylinders are implanted hi a heifer's stomach to at- tract bits of metal that the animal might swallow while eating; the magnet thereby protects the critter's heart and lungs from being punctured. When those same magnets are taped, with positive and negative poles together, on a car's fuel line, they slightly heat the gas so that the engine burns more vapor. Result: four to six miles more on a gallon of gas. At least that is the claim of George Goiri, 48, an Ontario, Ore., storekeeper, who began attaching magnets...