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Please, the Rex cat does not look like a rat. If you must liken this unique animal to another, the Rex should be known as the greyhound or whippet of catdom. With its curly, nonshedding coat the Rex is a cat that people with allergies can often keep...
Three, perhaps four or more; no one could be positive. But the crowd knew instantly what had happened. Witness after witness was to liken the noise to the "popping of a string of firecrackers," -a description made so familiar by assassinations and attempted assassinations that it is now repeated instinctively. A woman who had been standing near the Pope told a reporter confidently: "It was a Browning 9." She had heard the sound of shots many times in her native Northern Ireland, to whose warring factions the Pope in September 1979 had made an impassioned but vain plea...
Many journalists liken CNN to all-news radio minus traffic reports and other local features. The absence of these time-consuming staples could be a problem. Says NBC Washington Bureau Chief Sid Davis: "They are launching a monster that has a tremendous appetite. They've got to produce an awful lot of material to keep that thing functioning...
...another election would not really change the present balance of forces. But Suárez has shown signs of personal frustration. He has tended to withdraw inside Madrid's Moncloa Palace and surround himself with a coterie of protective advisers. An aide even goes so far as to liken his isolation to that of Richard Nixon in the White House...
...remains television's finest news organization by a wide margin. The network's news executives liken their 1,000-member staff to a ball club with superior depth at every position. With so many good people around, however, CBS is slow to provide challenges and advancement. Says Fred Friendly, former CBS News president and now a Columbia University journalism professor: "What producers and reporters want more than anything else is to get on the air. If another network can promise that, throw away the school...