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...mile chase back and forth across California. During that odyssey, Bunyard raped one more woman, shot two others, kidnaped several families and escaped twice more from the police. He was finally captured in the foothills of Mariposa, but not before he had been shot in the arms, legs and stomach...
...hotel for cattle." In order to cut costs, Stratford grows its own feeds, which are fertilized by manure from its own cattle. A division of the company enriches waste rice hulls with nitrogen for feed. To speed up digestion of grain in a cow's four stomach cavities, Stratford converts corn and milo into flakes. All these cost-shaving techniques mean that Stratford can fatten cattle at 30 to 40 per pound below the national average. The chicken branch, centered near Tenaha, Texas, and the floriculture operation, in Apopka, Fla., produce along comparably canny lines...
...Hummel turned a man into an infantry cog and spun him off to combat and death. In Sticks and Bones, which CBS refused to air after complaints from local stations (TIME, March 19), a blind veteran returned to his bland-as-cornflakes family and found that they could not stomach his 20-20 insight on the U.S. and the war. In The Orphan, at off-Broadway's Public Theater, Viet Nam is not actively present except as Rabe attempts to relate it to the problem of evil throughout human existence. Often as silly and awkward as it is ambitious...
FOLK MEDICINE always had many different ways to determine what the new baby was going to "be like." If a pendulum hung over the expectant mother's stomach swung to the right, the baby would be a girl; to the left, a boy. A "high" pregnancy--that is one where the baby sits high in the mother's stomach--meant that the baby would be strong and healthy...
...himself a fix. He went into a steady decline. Though his records made millions, his last years were a hell of scrounging for drugs. He had a nervous breakdown, recovered, attempted suicide. In the end his body proved less durable than his music. Afflicted by cirrhosis of the liver, stomach ulcers and pneumonia, he died in Manhattan in 1955, a tragic figure who in a few short years had forever changed the sound of jazz...