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...while it seemed as if they were right. Six times the tide came in and washed away Canipe's causeway. But on the seventh try the sandy road held fast, and soon the two 'dozers and an escort of trucks were moving down to the "Baboon" and hauling away the cargo. To get the heaviest parts of the cargo ashore, Canipe buried huge steel plates deep in the beach, hooked cables to them and easily slid the unwieldy factory parts ashore, above the high-water mark. A 23-ton steel press, worth $45,000 alone, was the biggest...
...item from Arkansas that looked fine on paper: in South Africa, forest rangers had a problem with leopards, which were eating all the pigs, which had been imported to eat caterpillars, which had been eating pine trees, and the rangers still needed the leopards to keep down the baboon population. On checking, the item turned out to be a two-year-old false rumor. Sometimes, however, an item improves in checking. For example, when w?e double-checked a suggestion about a Boston dancer who had consumed a monstrous, $12 restaurant breakfast, we found it was not only true...
...drums go bang and the cymbals clang And the top brass blaze away, McCarthy plays the big baboon And Stevens jades away. The country's in hysterics, Such tunes were never heard. Molotov sits in the grandstand And applauds the discordant play...
Ever since Romulus and Remus, folklore full of children reared by wild animals has been passed on and diligently reported. In the manner of Kipling's fictional "wolf-suckled, snake-taught, elephant-advised" Mowgli, Ireland has produced a sheep boy, Africa a baboon boy who devoured 89 prickly pears in one sitting. Seven years ago, newsmen seriously reported that a gazelle boy, was found running, at 50 m.p.h., stark naked across the Syrian desert. (The giveaway clue: he was obviously accustomed to wearing clothes since his arms and face were tanned, but his body was white...
...Stanton, at that time, Lincoln was "that long-armed baboon . . . that giraffe." Even after the Civil War had begun, he told the delighted General McClellan that Lincoln was the "original gorilla." But when Lincoln named him to the Cabinet, Stanton became a dynamic Secretary to the man he had once despised. He drove his subordinates mercilessly, but never so hard as he drove himself. Says Author Pratt: "He could tear up a contract and fling the pieces in the contractor's face; he could pass a white-haired father through to the bedside of his wounded son . . . He could...