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...tendency to sterility. The white-faced Hereford-its successor and still the leading U.S. breed-is hailed by many ranchers as a hardy forager and the best beef animal in the world. But other cowmen complain that it is prone to some diseases such as cancer eye and udder burn. The Aberdeen Angus, still growing in popularity, is first-rate under ideal conditions. But it has a reputation for being hard to handle. The hump-backed Brahman, immune to India's heat and insects, is undeniably tough, but so is its meat. A few massive, pale brown Charollaise have...
...Food & Drug Administration officials have found traces of penicillin in 3% to 11½% of milk samples tested at random across the U.S. Source: milk taken from cows too soon after treatment for udder inflammation. These tiny amounts are not dangerous to the vast majority of people, but could prove fatal to the few who are "exquisitely sensitive" to penicillin. Farmers, says the FDA, must not sell milk produced the first three days after treatment ends...
...udder is the world's most prodigious factory of antibodies, and all might be used to give human beings protection (at least temporarily) against an almost infinite variety of infectious diseases, two University of Minnesota researchers reported hopefully in Manhattan last week...
...researchers tried animals with many kinds of germs: the antibody factory worked full blast. They injected as many as eight kinds of bacteria into the udder at one time and got no evidence of interference among different antibody assemblies. Viruses seemed to work about as well; so did some bigger parasites and even plant pollens that might cause allergic reactions. Say Researchers Petersen and Campbell: "The range of antigenic material to which the cow's udder will respond seems limitless...
...what outraged Gina's counsel most was that Writer de Boccard, in referring to Gina's bosom, repeatedly used the word zinna, which is "vulgar language of the tavern, its precise meaning referring to the udder of a quadruped." This was "an attack on the reputation and honor of the actress, the woman and wife . . . because it violated all Italian tradition that calls for special respect to a woman, especially to a married woman." Furthermore, read the charge, this was "generic and specific defamation...