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Dreaming with the Eyes. Riesel, who is built like a banty rooster (5 ft. 4 in., 150 Ibs., with a 42-in. chest) and has a disposition to match, does not consider his blindness a handicap. He lay in bed for six weeks after the night in 1956 when a thug, hired by labor racketeers whom Riesel had been writing about, threw six ounces of acid in his eyes. All the while, he vowed to get back to his office and on the job. "They knocked me out for six weeks," he says of his enemies. "And that...
...jaunty, tough way, Khrushchev observed that old Konrad Adenauer is as "quarrelsome as a young rooster," and warned him that in case of war "West Germany would be the first country to go up in flames." In America, he said, "people who incite to war are even listened to by Senators," but if such admirals and generals hope by their "crazy declarations" to frighten Russians, "as the saying goes, look for fools in some other village, there are none in ours...
Nothing is allowed to impede the pursuit of perfection. Vantress discards any rooster whose offspring have high combs -a low comb means less slaughterhouse waste. Each half ounce that Vantress raises the dressing-out weight puts $30 million in the pockets of his customers. With an equal devotion to his job, Saglio recently decided that keeping chicken pedigrees in card indexes along with millions of measurement records involved the possibility of missing some choice genetic combinations. Now an IBM machine tabulates information on his birds. Tba machine decides which breeding rooster should go with which breeding...
...Fighting Rooster. Rushing into a death-created vacancy, Prosecutor Halleck won the Second Congressional District seat in 1935, thus became the only Hoosier among the 103 House Republicans left after Democratic landslides. "I felt like a banty rooster in a barn lot full of Percherons," he says. "I said, 'Boys, let's be mighty careful about stepping on one another.' " But caution was never Hoosier. His all-out kicks at New Deal and Fair Deal "regimentation and extrava gance" won him toe hold enough in the national G.O.P. to give a practical political push to the campaign...
...England's James I, the doctors were terrified of hurrying the process and thereby literally getting the ax. Not daring to bleed the youth as much as they wanted to, they finally decided to try treating him "as if he was some meane person." They bisected a rooster, attached the reeking halves to Henry's royal soles, which at least allowed him to keep most of his blood until he died soon after...