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...Bulging Waistline." The other thing to understand about U.S. politics, says Author Allen, is political loyalty, which is "a special kind of virtue ... In a field of activity where the outs are forever on the hunt for some way of getting in; the ins must herd together for mutual protection, rumps together and horns presented to the would-be intruders...
...military leader." If the Republican Party had gotten Ike, George avows, it "would have had a candidate worthy of its Abraham Lincoln tradition." Would George have voted for him? Not on your life. George Allen is first and last a party man. Politics are politics. At all costs, the herd must be saved: rumps together, horns...
...features a quiz master named Wilfred Pickles who resembles a more genial Groucho Marx; on such comedy shows as Educating Archie, Ray's a Laugh and Take It from Here, the labored pun flourishes even more richly than in the U.S. (sample: "What are we hunting for?" "Herd of deer, my lord." " 'Course I've heard of deer-big things like horses with a hatrack on their foreheads...
...Quickly he sold nine animals for a total of $39,925, topped the whole lot with a whopping $46,000 for one prize bull, Baca OJR Royal I. In two arm-flailing days filled with Thompson's rolling oratory, he and four assistants sold the entire Switzer & Field herd...
...breed. In the last 42 years Auctioneer Thompson has knocked down $250 million worth of cattle at more than 7,000 sales all over the U.S. His record $506,000 for a single day's selling, set at the auction of Colorado Rancher Dan Thornton's Hereford herd in 1947, still stands (TIME, Oct. 6, 1947), as does the $65,000 bid at which he sold the prize bull Baca Duke II last year. Only eight Hereford bulls have ever been sold for more than $50,000. Colonel Thompson has auctioned them...