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Scampering and wagging her tail, the brown and white dog on the movie screen seemed nothing more than a picture of normal canine happiness. But to the meeting of the American College of Surgeons, the happy-go-lucky mutt was of signal significance. Within her chest was another dog's heart, transplanted by Dr. Richard R. Lower of the Medical College of Virginia more than a year before. She and another pup had not only survived with substitute hearts, but they were able to function normally-even to the extent, in the brown and white dog's case...
Particles and Field Department. A paper caricature of Snoopy, the mutt in Peanuts, had ears for wings, rear paws for tail assembly; since it was unflyable, it was suspended from a Kleenex parachute. Australia was represented by a long, beak-nosed glider. "It will probably fly upside down in the Northern Hemisphere," predicted the Qantas executive who sent it to the contest. The only direction it flew on three successive flights was straight down under...
...Fundamentals of Criminal Investigation, former New York City Detective Charles O'Hara goes far beyond the familiar Mutt & Jeff routine in which a suspect is scared witless by a "bad guy" detective and is then saved by a "good guy" who coaxes him to shame the baddy by talking freely. O'Hara not only stresses "bluff on a split
...Harm from Piggybacking. With 37% of the truck market, Chevrolet easily leads other truckmakers in sales, is followed by Ford and Harvester. The two hottest sellers are the Mutt and Jeff of the industry: the small delivery truck and the huge tractor-trailer. Chevrolet's 61 models have cornered 78% of the small-truck market, which has mushroomed until it now accounts for 76% of all truck sales. The light trucks have even inspired some leisure-time cousins: small, rugged vehicles that are designed for camping, recreation and family hauling. To satisfy this market, Chevrolet has introduced the Chevelle...
...Brown Sound. Among the many white rock 'n' roll singers attempting a pure "brown sound" today, the most successful are the Righteous Brothers and the Rolling Stones. The Righteous Brothers, a Mutt-and-Jeff pair of 24-year-old Californians, are referred to by Negro disk jockeys as "our blue-eyed soul brothers" for the spiraling gospel wail and hoarse growl they inject into songs like their bestselling Just Once in My Life. Their name, in fact, is derived from the Sunday-go-to-meetin' phrase: "Man, that was really righteous, brothers...