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...tamed the Boston Terrier last Tuesday but with the Army Mule, we've got a hybrid of a different color," he said...
...handles." These nicknames rip through the air waves, sounding like the cast of Looney Tunes; Woodpecker tears by hi the night with his co-driver Stogie; Number One Nose Picker noses ahead of his good buddy Squirrel. Not to be outhandled, other truckers are known as Popper Stopper, Bootlegger, Mule Skinner and Silver Fox. Even the handful of women truckers enter the naming game. Granny Go Go, Lovey Dovey and Truckin' Mama barrel on down the highway with the boys...
...Forty mules and Georgia's Lieutenant Governor Lester Maddox turned up for "Mule Day" at Gold Hills amusement park in Dahlonega, Ga. Maddox headed up a panel of four judges to pick the prettiest, ugliest and orneriest mules -with Ida, Bullwinkle, and a six-week-old youngster named Tom respectively getting the nod. While Maddox declined invitations to enter the hog-calling contest and greased-pig chase, he did accept a challenge to mount a mule. His first effort ended in a disastrous sprawl on the ground, and on the second try Maddox somehow wound up mounted backward...
Dixon, who now weighs 300 lbs. and stands 6 ft., 2 1/2 in., says that when he was a teenager, he was big for his age. He developed strong legs from walking behind a mule and plow all day, and strong arms from "totin' logs." I thought strength did everything," he notes, "and I was big and strong and hard." When he was 17 years old, he left Mississippi for Chicago with some 100 songs that he had written, and the dream of becoming a professional fighter. Dixon had a few pro-fights in Chicago. He was Joe Louis...
...country the way they were used to running things," he theorized. "Eisenhower ran it like an army, Kennedy like Harvard, L.B.J. like a cattle ranch, and Nixon like a business. Truman was our last great President. He ran the country the way it should be run-like a Missouri mule." That view would hardly bring agreement from businessmen (most of whom are appalled by Watergate) or from mules, but it reflects a facet of the 1973 campus mood...