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...Bosporus (meaning ox or cow ford) is a deep, narrow strait separating Europe and Asia, named in honor of an early swimmer: Io, daughter of the river god Inachos. Io, a looker, dallied with Zeus, who took the precaution-unavailable to other philandering husbands-of changing her into a heifer whenever his wife hove in sight. But Hera (Mrs. Zeus) was a shade too smart for him. One day she archly asked her husband to give her the heifer as a pet. To get out of the fix, poor Io galloped down over the plains of Illyria, across the Balkan...
Died. Lamar Trotti, 51, Oscar-winning screen writer (Wilson) and producer (The Ox-Bow Incident, Cheaper by the Dozen); of a heart attack; in Oceanside, Calif...
Last year Zoologist Charles Wharton, an adventurous young (28) scientist financed by the Coolidge Foundation, set out for Cambodia to study the kouprey, an elusive and nearly extinct wild ox. Back in the U.S. last week, he had learned a lot about the kouprey, despite the hazards of scientific research in IndoChina's guerrilla-infested jungles...
...that . . . from the temple of Juno there had rushed forth a form greater than the form of man; that the statue of the Divine Julius, which stands on an island in the Tiber, had turned from the West to the East on a calm and tranquil day ; that an ox had spoken aloud in Etruria . . . besides many other things, such as in barbarous ages are observed even during seasons of peace, but are heard of only in times of terror...
During a visit to their old friend, Illinois' Governor Adlai Stevenson, British Diplomat Sir Gladwyn Jebb and his wife climbed into an ox-drawn cart for a tourists' tour of Lincoln Village in New Salem. The tour ended when the driver lost control of the oxen and the cart lumbered into a big tree, leaving the passengers shaken but undamaged. Said Sir Gladwyn: "I think we got out rather luckily considering that this has been our first try at midwest sightseeing...