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...world's biggest kennel of inbred beagles is "Beagleville," on the campus of the University of Utah in Salt Lake City. It has another distinction: most of its 450 beagles are radioactive. Their job under an Atomic Energy Commission contract is to determine the "burden" of radioactivity that a beagle (or human) body can carry for a lifetime without damage. The dogs are injected with graduated amounts of plutonium, radium, radiothorium or mesothorium. These elements accumulate in the bones and bombard tender cells with damaging alpha particles...
What they will see is an auto that is new from rubber to roof, with the large-car look of an Oldsmobile. Long before his predecessor at G.M., Defense Secretary Charlie Wilson, made his crack about bird dogs and kennel dogs (TIME, Oct. 25), Curtice described the new Chevrolet as having "a hound-dog look"-long, low and forward-plunging. The same overall length (196 in.) as last year, the new Chevvies are lower by 2.6 in. to 6.3 in. (for the station wagon), have two inches more hip and shoulder room inside. With wrap-around windshields, they have...
...didn't have enough gumption to go 100 miles and get himself a job -I don't go for that. I've got a lot of sympathy for people where a sudden change catches them. But-I've always liked bird dogs better than kennel-fed dogs myself...
...hours the Denver White House flapped like an overcrowded dog kennel in an animated cartoon. But it did not panic. After a flurry of transcontinental phone calls, President Eisenhower issued a steadying statement: "I have never found him [Wilson] in the slightest degree indifferent to human misfortune . . . In spite of record peacetime employment, there are areas suffering from economic dislocations as the aftermath of war and inflation. Every one of these is engaging the earnest and persistent efforts of the Administration...
...down south when it gets a little cold," he said, commenting on those who were imported from the South last year and now find themselves out of a job. Thinking, perhaps, that he wasn't fully understood, he drew a little analogy: "Personally, I like bird dogs better than kennel-fed dogs," he said. "The bird dogs like to get out and hunt for their food, but the kennel dogs just sit on their haunches and yelp...