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Last week Mousam, a plump gray-and-white cat of uncertain lineage, received a notice from the office of the Massachusetts jury commissioner excusing her from courtroom duty. Reason: "Language." Amused, Christian soon learned that Mousam and his other cat, Leo A. Longfellow, were listed on the 1984 Boston city census rolls as nurses, ages 29 and 32. Apprised of Mousam's true identity, Jury Commissioner Paul Carr was not embarrassed. Shrugged he: "It's not the first time. We've summoned cats and dogs and buildings and 'Occupant' and 'Vacant.' We accept what...
...town's upper class, especially since she is not part of it. Here it is 1947, and what with food rationing and the gentry hoarding giblets in their attache cases, Joyce can't get a decent piece of meat. Not, at least, until Betty comes to visit. A plump sow with a sweet disposition, Betty is the Chilverses' ticket to burgherhood--if only Gilbert can bring himself to slit the throat of his new companion. "It's not just pork. It's power," Joyce tells her sweet, weak husband. "Kill your friend!" Can he resist Joyce's way with...
This fall's California grape harvest was a race against the sun. Unseasonable heat of up to 105° threatened to ripen the fruit too quickly and spoil it for winemaking. But as the last bunches of plump red and golden grapes were dumped safely into crushers last week, growers and vintners were in no mood to raise their goblets to Bacchus. Because of a worldwide glut of wine, this year's harvest of nearly 2 million tons of grapes will be far more than needed. "We are in a hell of a bind here," says Earl Rocca...
...find a "median" home? The other day, on a quiet street in Santa Monica, a FOR SALE sign went up in front of a three-bedroom, one-bath, fake stucco 1940s house on a lot the size of a gas-station road map. Asking price: $269,000. A plump woman walking by wearing a muumuu said, "It may sound high, but you pay to be close to the beach. The air is better." Down at the beach in Santa Monica, at Ocean Boulevard Park, the government had erected a sign: NOTICE. BLUFF SUBJECT TO SLIDES. USE PARK AT YOUR...
When Michael Wise sits down at a keyboard, he never knows when he will get up. The plump, bearded computer programmer often works twelve, 24, even 36 hours without a break, filling a green screen at the San Rafael, Calif., offices of Broderbund Software with words and numbers that only he and his computer completely understand. Since December, Wise has written 40,000 lines of instructions for a video game he calls Captain Goodnight, after the old Captain Midnight radio series. By the time the program is ready for release this summer, it will have grown to 50,000 lines...