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Old December 19th 08, 04:17 AM posted to sci.space.history
Reunite Gondwanaland (Mary Shafer)
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Default A dog knocks a goat out of the news?

On 14 Dec 2008 23:01:27 -0500, (Joseph Nebus) wrote:

The newscaster reported on the launch of Laika that a dog had
knocked a goat off the front page. So what goat was that? Was this an
actual goat that'd achieved human-interest status at the time, or was
it a metaphorical goat of the United States rocket program not really
working out so well as might be desired?


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