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...which her mother and sister Lynda Bird belong; Daddy, however, is a member of the Disciples of Christ...
...RHINOS BELONG TO EVERYBODY by Bernhard Grzimek. 207 pages. Hill & Wang. $12.50. Africa and its wildlife have admittedly been done to death in picture books, not to mention the movies. But Dr. Grzimek, who is director of the Frankfurt Zoo and widely respected as a conservationist, makes an excellent guide. His subjects do not just stand around as in most such books. They charge the photographer, get rescued from swamps; a pride of lions claw a stuffed zebra that Grzimek set up just to see what they would do. The text is informal and informative, just as a good guide...
Requiem. There are six extraspecial sharks that have earned a place in the International Game Fish Association's official list of sporting fish-all six of which, incidentally, belong to the "requiem" family (a tony way of saying that they are hungry for human meat). Smallest is the porbeagle, a toothy rascal that inhabits the North Atlantic and grows to a mere 600 Ibs. There is the slender blue shark, a handsome indigo in color and up to 800 Ibs. of pure ferocity; the weird-looking thresher, which batters its prey senseless with an enormous scythelike tail and comes...
Were the young listening? Probably not. The last word may belong to the student speaker at Yale who some time ago summed up the situation with a cliché of his own: "We are the leaders of tomorrow-how does that grab...
...family. I have nothing at all against housewives who use their education and their brains outside the home. I have, from time to time, used mine. By and large, though, the world runs better when men and women keep to their own spheres." But more important, "we who belong to the profession of housewife hold the fate of the world in our hands. It is our influence which will determine the culture of coming generations. We are the people who chiefly listen to the music, buy the books, attend the theater, prowl the art galleries, collect for the charities, brood...