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This performance, which looks intelligent, does not strain the brain of even the flightiest hen. If properly conditioned, she will go through her act in a department-store window, unconscious of traffic noise or applauding spectators. The only thing that matters to her is the reward, and she has been taught what...
...Dancing Goat. Among the most successful alumni of Breland's university are his "Caseys at the Bat" (hens that play baseball). It takes a very short time, he says, for a hen to learn that when she tugs at a rubber ring, an electrically operated bat will knock a small ball toward a wire-screen outfield and a few grains of wheat will fall into a trough. So the hen pulls the ring, and then runs madly for "first base'' (the trough). If the ball is intercepted by mechanical "defensive players," she knows by experience that...
Outstanding victories by Art Willis in the mile and Dick Wharton in 1000, along with Joel Cohen's win in the 60-yard high hurdles, gave the varsity a slight lead on Yale. But hen Yale won the pole vault, the jumps, the hammer, and the shot, even the varsity's sweep of the relays was not enough to stave off the Elis who tallied 56 3-5 points to the Crimson's 53 2-5, and the Tiger...
...fact that Arbenz has been conspiratorially busy; Mexico's government has repeatedly cautioned its numerous Guatemalan exiles to refrain from "political activity." Arbenz' arrogant refusal to do so has left a bad taste with many Mexicans; the leading daily Excelsior last week sourly cartooned him as a hen flying off and leaving a brood of chicks marked with the hammer and sickle. Stopping in Paris en route to Lausanne, he told reporters: "I am not renouncing politics. I will remain in politics all my life." But, mindful of the rumors, he cautiously added: "I have no political projects...
...lethal when drunk. He killed his best friend in a quarrel over local politics and was put away for two years, although Doric always said, "He done it in self-defense." In 1944, to avenge another killing, Webb and a friend shot down a man in broad daylight at Hen's Corner, a moonshine saloon in the county seat of Manchester (pop. 1,706). Under oath Webb testified so roguishly, with such good humor, that they both went free...