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...lifted. To find out, the ministry called on Britain's atomic research station at Harwell. The scientists put 24 grams of sodium carbonate in a reactor and exposed it to neutrons until it became fiercely radioactive. They took it to Stonehenge by truck, put it in a rabbit-size burrow under the great stone and left it there for 36 hours while its gamma rays felt for cracks. If the cracks were really serious, they would show on photographic films placed on top of the stone...
...nevah did ... Go fishin', boy." And at his daughter he roars, "Wheah's mah crop? Whut follahs me?" When her elegant young man dawdles on the way to the altar, Welles tries to hog-tie her up with Ben Quick. "Ah am no tremblin' little rabbit full of smolderin' unsatisfah'd desires," screams Actress Woodward when Quick puts up his proposition. "[Sex] is not enough . . . not nearly enough!" But Quick has an answer for that: "The world belongs to the meat eaters, Miss, and if you've got to take it raw, take...
...years Oxford scholars have been uneasy about certain mutations in academic plumage. Shortly after World War II, hard-pressed tailors took to making gowns of nylon instead of silk, even trimmed the hoods of bachelors of arts with nylon fur instead of ermine or white-dyed rabbit. Worse yet, many Oxonians were showing up in startling shades of the traditional colors. Reason: in the university's seven centuries, no one had ever specified the precise shades for the various degrees. Around the faculty's high tables in college dining halls, the old guard eyed the robes...
...industry that almost foundered in the postwar prosperity is the U.S. fur business. In 1946 furriers had nearly $500 million in retail sales. But success attracted thousands of fly-by-nighters who tricked out rabbit, skunk and black Manchurian dog under such misleading names as Arctic seal, Alaska sable and Belgium lynx. As burned buyers learned to fear the fur, the trend to suburban living-with its more casual dress-trimmed the market more. Women also became choosier. Many passed up muskrat, squirrel, and other less expensive furs for good cloth coats-or waited until they could afford mink...
...wool and fur division of the Federal Trade Commission: "The act has done a lot to instill consumer confidence. There was a time when a lot of people would not go near a furrier for fear of being deceived. There used to be 96 different names for rabbit. Now it has to be called rabbit-and not many make or buy it." To complete the process of shaking the rascals out, Congress last year added $50,000 to the FTC's enforcement budget to keep tabs on the fur industry...