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...search for new energy pushes into Amazon jungles and Antarctic...
...exotic people in remote, politically inoffensive settings. "We'll show anything that holds people's interest," says Senkevich, whose TV style can best be described as low-key. "What interests them most of all is mysterious tribes, like the Australian aborigines or peoples that live along the Amazon...
With a couple of trombone blasts, an amazon of a woman, sporting gold sequins, helmet and spear, rambles onto the stage to tell us she got lost in this forest running away from a clumsy abductor who dropped her from her balcony. This lady of the lowlands. Donna Ribalda (Melody Scheiner) feigns gusto in her aria, but soon gives in to boredom...
Hefty too: up to 2,200 Ibs. of blubbery bulk. But while Cleveland hailed from New Jersey, the manatee is a native of warmer climes: the rivers of West Africa, the Amazon basin, the shores of the Caribbean, and the coasts of Florida. Now the gentle and once plentiful creature is in serious danger of extinction. In Africa and South America, tribesmen have hunted it for its delectable meat-not unlike veal-as well as its fat and oil, leathery skin and ivory-like bone. In Florida, only some 1,000 remain, and the death rate appears to be exceeding...
...courageous Sonia Johnson labeled militant for her support of ERA in the face of opposition from the Mormon church [Dec. 17]? I know of no other lobbyists who are described as such, not even the military. It conjures in the mind a huge Amazon, flailing her arms about, mowing down Congressmen, state legislators, press people and presidential candidates. Could this be another putdown, like "the little woman...