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When a baby gorilla named Cenzoo flew first class to Denver last April, it was no accident that reporters swarmed the tarmac to meet the plane. The Denver Zoo had trumpeted the airborne ape's arrival as part of a publicity blitz for the July 30 opening of its Primate Panorama, which will house 200 animals on seven nature-like acres. Denver isn't alone in putting its best paw forward to lure more visitors. Attendance at the nation's animal houses has posted meager gains of late, as rival amusements have drawn customers away. So zoos are stressing such...
...Russia's epochal presidential campaign comes down to the voters, Yeltsin has managed to turn a contest on the fate of democratic reform into a two-man race with his main challenger, Communist Party leader Gennadi Zyuganov. After weeks of extraordinary, exuberant stumping and an unprecedented media blitz, Yeltsin the populist politician has been reborn, while some of the gas has gone out of the stolid Zyuganov's gloom-and-doom campaign. With nine other candidates in the race, neither of the front runners is expected to win outright--50% plus one--in the first round, but there is little...
Yale strong safety Tony Mazurkiewicz blasts through the Harvard line on a blitz and tackles sophomore quarterback Jay Snowden, who had replaced Ferrara, for a three-yard loss...
...tribe of headhunters; William L. Shirer risking imprisonment by providing the first accounts of France's capitulation to Hitler; Charles Collingwood, the high-living, womanizing dandy, demonstrating incredible courage during the North Africa campaign. Dominating the story from London is Murrow himself, bringing the Battle of Britain and the Blitz back to an indifferent America, helping shift public opinion from isolationism to interventionism by painting vivid word pictures of ordinary Britons in extraordinary times...
While the blitz continued, Lebanon lived out a strange dichotomy. Reconstruction continued in the midst of destruction. Israeli missile ships shelled the coastal highway between Beirut and Tyre. Yet at the end of the hair-raising high-speed dash through explosions, motorists came upon giant Caterpillars smoothing the new airport runway...