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...while he was still in high school, Mahan was thrown by a bull, which then stepped on his jaw and broke it in five places. He has since had a face bone shattered, a rib broken and three vertebrae cracked. Last week in Phoenix, a bull threw him alongside a metal barrel in which a rodeo clown was hiding, then turned, charged, missed Mahan by a hair, but caught the barrel and butted its 300-lb. weight 6 ft. into the air. The clown was lucky to escape with only minor injuries. It was a close call for all concerned...
Before a company dinner for an important visitor, Mr. Mac will often take three or four hours with a pair of vice presidents deciding whether to serve steak at $5.25 a person or rib roast at $4.75. Then there is the matter of vegetables. Will asparagus be cheaper than brussels sprouts, or will carrots be cheaper still? When it comes to making such decisions, McDonnell's favorite tool is his slide rule. For a Christmas party, he once figured out that twelve ounces of eggnog per person was precisely the right amount to assure conviviality without too much hilarity?...
...full of offset smugness. "Our custom department gathers the finest of fabrics for every type of wear. We are famous for maintaining expertise of the highest order in cutting and journeyman tailoring to individual order." Sure. All that hoary tradition. Sir, would you like to look at our Steep Rib Cavalry Twill pants or West of England Poacher's Tweeds? I see, sir. Well, here's our British Warm in the Snug British Officer Double Breasted style. The Crombie Pebble Finish is especially nice...
...rest, but she cannot resist giving her Thanksgiving a French accent. The turkey she and Paul will share with her sister-in-law in Bucks County, Pa., is called dindon demi-désossé (see diagram). To make it easier to carve, the upper part of the rib cage is removed before roasting. She plans to use a sausage and bread-crumb dressing (rough measurement is I cup of dressing for each pound of "bought weight"), recommends marinating the cut-up breast meat in cognac, shallots, salt and pepper for 20 minutes while preparing the stuffing...
...accomplice. Their suspicions were based primarily on the commission's controversial "single-bullet theory." This is its conclusion that a bullet hit the back of Kennedy's neck and emerged through his lower throat before it struck Texas Governor John Connally in the back, smashed across a rib, shattered his right wrist, and punctured his left thigh. Commission members accepted this explanation after they saw a tourist's film of the assassination, which indicated that the interval between Kennedy's reaction to being hit and Connally's first visible reaction to his wounds...