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Concerning the Aug. 22 report that the President's 13-month-old gift-heifer, Irvington Roamiss Pear, "reared up on her hind legs, clicked her front hooves, and gamboled into the pasture," we wonder if this is not a slight exaggeration. The three of us represent over 47 years of accumulated farming experience, but none of us ever witnessed such an event...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 12, 1955 | 9/12/1955 | See Source »

...Ducks. Ike indicated a near by pasture and said: "Let's take her down there and turn her loose." The President unfastened the gate himself, and slapped Irvington Roamiss Pear on the rump. "O.K., you're loose now, baby," he said. The heifer reared up on her hind legs, clicked her front hooves and gamboled into the pasture...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: The Farmer in the Dell | 8/22/1955 | See Source »

...anticipation of Urnlike joys, he seeks Bacchus in the Logan Airport bar. His equine physiognomy makes couthness impossible, and his hind legs keeps upsetting the martinis...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "Oh What A Rogue Am I" | 5/6/1955 | See Source »

...they could be made to stand upright for as much as eight hours by being put on a tilting table. The erect posture caused a greater flow of blood to the brain. Dr. Britton believes that when man's apelike, allfours ancestors started to walk on their hind legs, their brains grew bigger...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Look Upward, Chimp | 4/25/1955 | See Source »

What started the ape men walking on their hind legs? Dr. Britton installed a female chimp named Bonga on a small island in a lake at Charlottesville, Va. Bonga could not swim and therefore had to make the best of it, even though the Virginia winter soon brought snow. When there was snow on the ground, Bonga walked upright, apparently to keep her hands and belly from getting cold...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Look Upward, Chimp | 4/25/1955 | See Source »

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