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...elephant inside of a boa constrictor...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Trivia Answers The Butler was Bannister and the Grinch Stole Christmas | 11/25/1970 | See Source »

...father to invite a biology teacher to the Buckley home in Sharon, Conn., for the summer. The teacher came with his animals. By summer's end, there were more than 70 of them. The pupil later had his own smaller, but equally renowned zoo at Yale: one boa constrictor. Buckley has made two trips to the Arctic on scientific expeditions, and once considered becoming an ornithologist. On that, Brother William reverts to form: "Jim used to get up at 4 in the morning, when he was at Yale, to bird watch. Always struck me as ludicrous...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: New York's James Buckley | 11/16/1970 | See Source »

Deidre fed them while Alyosha completed his devotions, did his ablutions and anointed his body. He returned to them in an ancient brocade robe with a feather boa collar. Merilee sniffed odorless peace in this place of places, and Sam inhaled some too. In a rush Merilee knew it was right and they should come here. Alyosha massaged her throbbing toe, did his subtle ministrations to reduce the pain and told Merilee of a duty she had to perform. Young Stefan was staying behind when Alyosha and Deidre left to find the Tribe in Oaxaca and the boy would need...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 4/1/1970 | See Source »

...cobra gladiator vest at Kamali. Betsey, Bunky and Nini, another boutique, has appliquéd snakeskin stars onto belts and has imported Ossie Clark's $200 cobra patchwork waist jacket. Manhattan's Casa Cuero boutique isn't interested in just any old snake; it is boa that turns them on and their patrons out-in midis, minis, jeans and jackets, everything boa but the belts, which are cobra...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: For Goodness Snakes, the Serpents Have Come | 3/16/1970 | See Source »

...snake." Fortunately for Fleming Joffe Ltd., biggest U.S. supplier of snakeskins, many women cannot. The company did a $1 million-plus trade in skins last year, with python the biggest seller (naturally black and white, the skins are often bleached out and dyed other shades or hand painted) and boa and cobra close behind. "In fact," says Snakeskin Salesman Rocco Selvaggi, "where the boas are concerned, we're selling whatever we can get our hands on." Business is expected to double by the end of this season...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: For Goodness Snakes, the Serpents Have Come | 3/16/1970 | See Source »

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