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...zoologist even suggested the "head" was that of a Highland steer that had drowned in the lake. One skeptic, interviewed on British television, speculated that the head was a shot of a scuba diver wearing his breathing apparatus backward. A London paper noted that Nessie's proposed scientific name, Nessiteras rhombopteryx, is an anagram for "monster hoax by Sir Peter S."-a possible reference to Nessie Supporter Sir Peter Scott, who co-authored the Nature article with Rines...
...smiling lady is British Tory Leader Margaret Thatcher, who had come to London's Royal Smithfield Show to cultivate the farm vote. The wary-eyed animal at her side is Kojak, a Charolais and Aberdeen Angus steer entered in the annual livestock fair. Kojak, the property of Sir Hugh Froser (who is chairman of Harrods department store), had good reason for uneasiness. Despite his new political connection, he was put on the auction block and bought by butchers to be converted into Christmas roast beef...
...tennis," advised Steve Ford, 19, after he watched Happy Hustler Bobby Riggs, 58, try some bulldogging at the San Diego Country Estates. The President's son was there to take bronc-riding lessons. Riggs, meanwhile, had put on some cowboy gear, then tried (unsuccessfully) to wrestle a recalcitrant steer to the ground. Undaunted, Riggs promised a better showing in his next venture - a foot race across California's Death Valley against Australian Distance Runner Bill Emmerton...
...adventurous, Lucia, which is described as a Cuban epic of love and revolution, makes its debut in the Science Center B on Saturday night. A wise man told me to steer away from epics, but maybe this is an exception, and at least you can be sure it isn't a remake of the Nibelungenlied...
...turns out that the Safeguard is simply not up to stopping the Soviet SS-19, a new missile that is able to steer a maddeningly serpentine course toward a target. Thus when the House recently acted on an Army request for $85.3 million for operating the completed Grand Forks site for a year, it voted instead to provide $45.3 million to close up the $5.7 billion installation for good...