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...locked into it information concerning her period of probable fertility. At the beginning of each menstrual cycle, she merely sets the dial in the warning window to "1," then keeps an eye peeled on the window, which automatically turns red on the first day of probable fertility, remains red till the last...
...million drive to upgrade Pitt, promoting a $250 million redevelopment of the school's Oakland neighborhood, serving as chairman of S.C.M. Corp. (formerly Smith Corona Mar-chant), and heading Studebaker Corp.'s Executive Committee: "Maybe I do-but don't call me down on it till I drop one." By last week it was clear that Litchfield had finally fumbled a big one: Pitt...
...best of the mustangs were broken to the bridle by several established procedures. The Mexican method was subtle but brutal: the horse was slowly starved and beaten into docility. The American method was stupid but decent: a man jumped on the horse's back and rode him till the man was thrown or the bronco was busted. The Indian method was noble and humane: immobilized by ropes, the horse was approached by his master, who spoke to him softly in "horse talk," stroked his body until every part of it had been touched and every fear assuaged, then mounted...
...backwards-fast. And a cutting horse named Bosley Blue, who could handle 1,500 head of cattle without a rider to direct him, once grabbed the tail of a raging steer in his teeth, flipped the brute on his back, then calmly sat on top of him till he sizzled down...
...frustration. He murdered two other young stallions, fought off a dozen men with rawhide lariats, climbed over a seven-foot fence, smashed through a barrier of logs, charged into the open prairie, met up with eight horses, slaughtered them all-and went right on slaughtering his own kind. Till the day he died he was a four-footed psychopath...