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...driving them in an ever-narrowing circle, just as men do. Hunting ducks, a coyote once drove the feeding ducks across a lake, and when the ducks ventured close to the farther shore, they were pounced upon by a teammate hidden in the underbrush. Coyotes will hide in a herd of cattle to destroy their scent, or even take refuge in a wagon or a moving flatcar...
...this program would be to enable students to develop working relationships with individual faculty members, and to encourage and guide independent work. Such a program would probably lean heavily on the Houses, which seem to be the only units small enough to deal with men out of the herd...
...Well," he admitted, "they were a little reluctant to leave. We imported ten Bengal tigers, and within a couple of hours there wasn't a bulldog left. Since we couldn't get near a house full of tigers, we had to find a herd of wild elephants and turn them loose on the tigers...
This season, theater lovers can look with some hope to a midtown Manhattan cubbyhole. There, amid the jangle of telephones, a stagestruck, 27-year-old girl rides herd on thousands of good tickets to the best shows in town. Plump, Brooklyn-born Sylvia Siegler works 14 hours a day on her new business-the Show-of-the-Month Club, which has caught on so fast that next week it moves into a whole floor of offices...
Buttles refused to accept two of the twelve resignations; he fired the men instead. Dissatisfied with the way things were going, General Clay stepped in. He ordered Colonel Textor to appoint a three-man board of military government employees, all former U.S. newsmen, to ride herd on the Zeitung and, presumably, Publisher Buttles. Their first step was to "reconsider" the firings and resignations. Indignant at having his judgment questioned, Publisher Buttles quit...