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...even a purebred dog like a Doberperson pinscher or a Gerperson shepherd. So how does a mutt like Benji, though he is a movie star, get to be named co-chairperson of a humans' charity committee? It seems that the Marine Corps Reserve, launching its 32nd Toys for Tots campaign to provide Christmas gifts for underprivileged children, thought that dressing Benji in a space suit might lure more contributions. Television's Love Boat captain, Gavin MacLeod, agreed to be Benji's co-chairperson, ignoring the vaudeville maxim, never follow a dog act. "Listen," said MacLeod...
Sierra's Moby Dick-like nemesis was not a great whale, but the Sea Shepherd, a converted British fishing trawler purchased by Cleveland Amory's Fund for Animals. The conservationists' ship spotted Sierra 180 miles off the coast of Portugal and shadowed it toward Oporto, where it was expected to unload its cargo of whale products. Their probable destination: Japan. But when Sierra balked at entering the harbor, the leader of the antiwhaling expedition, Paul Watson, 28, of Vancouver, put Shepherd's captain and 14 crew members ashore, then headed back out to sea with...
...packed with 100 tons of cement, the 789-ton Shepherd bore down on the lighter Sierra and struck a glancing blow. Explained Watson: "I tried to take off the harpoon." Then, after making a 360° turn, the avenging trawler opened up to twelve knots and hit again, this time punching a gaping hole amidships. Taking on water, Sierra limped into port, and, according to Watson, should be out of action for months, if not permanently. Watson's own ship suffered nothing more than a battered...
Four and a half hours later, as it steamed north to England, Shepherd was intercepted by a Portuguese destroyer and ordered back to Oporto. There Watson found that one of his crew, Richard Morrison, 27, of Boston, had been bashed on the head in a waterfront scuffle with Sierra crewmen and was hospitalized with a severe concussion. The Sierra sailors, many of them South Africans, were detained, but at week's end most had been discharged, and any legal action about the skirmishing on land or sea was still...
...French Revolution and Cassandra of its Irish offspring, dreading that "the spirit of Rousseau is in the very air these days, like dandelion puffballs." Recording the contagion, as one of the novel's several narrators, is the Rev. Arthur Vincent Broome, M.A. (Oxon.), dispatched from England to shepherd a Protestant flock in distant Killala but soon questioning whether he is merely a "priest to a military cult...