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...Spencer Davidson's account of the flying chicken spree at Rio Grande, Ohio, is the laughingest story to appear in your pages in all of the 52 years I've been reading TIME...
...chicken from their fingers, the satisfied spectators slowly meander toward the car pasture. "See you all next year," says Evans, as a state policeman helps the campers and pickups thread in among the giant semis barreling along Route 35. From one departing truck, a rooster crows an unprintable reply. - Spencer Davidson...
...significant additions to her team; both, interestingly enough, have been successful retailers. David Wolfson, 43, a former director of the Great Universal Stores chain who had been secretary to the shadow cabinet, was installed as her personal chief of staff. Sir Derek Rayner, 53, joint managing director of Marks & Spencer, one of Thatcher's own favorite shopping haunts, was named chief waste cutter, as it were. His assignment is to cut fat and improve efficiency in the overgrown bureaucracy of Whitehall...
CRAB CATCHING: With a week off before the May 12 Eastern Sprints (New Preston, Conn.), the Crimson squad is hopeful. Three seat Karen Spencer said yesterday, "The Yale race freaked us out a little, but we can win. I'm convinced...
Because the Mormon Church decrees that the living can offer the dead salvation through baptism, devout Mormons check their roots religiously. But who has turned up so many distinguished kin as Mormon President Spencer W. Kimball? According to the Church News, Kimball is related, at times to the seventh cousin once removed, to John Adams, John Quincy Adams, Franklin Pierce, Chester A. Arthur, Grover Cleveland, Herbert Hoover, Richard M. Nixon, Gerald Ford and an eclectic lot of non-Presidents including John Foster Dulles, George Gallup, Aaron Burr, Nelson A. Rockefeller, Walt Disney and Humphrey Bogart. Though the Church News makes...