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Whatever happened to Barbra Streisand, 22, the girl in the feather boa, the late suffragette dress, and whatever else was handy to "match"? For one thing, she's making about $5,000 a week in Funny Girl, which is enough to enrich anyone's tastes. Then CBS decided to show her all dressed up in its TV musical My Name Is Barbra late in April and marched her off to Manhattan's Bergdorf-Goodman for fitting and filming. She tried on a $15,000 Somali leopard coat-and liked it! Next came a mink-lined velvet robe...
...snake you identified as a boa is actually an African rock python. The python usually makes a hardier, longer-lived, more interesting, gentler pet than the boa, and is much larger...
...demonstrated by Herpetophile George Kleinsinger who has a boa (left) as well as a python...
Snakes are a big new fad-especially, say dealers, among women. Pythons and boa constrictors, at about $5 a foot, are the most popular. Seattle Dealer Dawayne Goodburn considers them "good family pets, very clean and companionable and easy to feed." He recently sold a 5-ft. South American boa to a family with 2½-year-old girl triplets. Snake-fancying Sophomore Laurie Vitt of Western Washington State College has a python, rattlesnake, tokay gecko and two boas, which he keeps in his room with his tarantulas when his parents entertain. One evening, he was treating the boas...
...more understandable collector's items are such handsome felines as house-cat-size margays, ocelots and cheetahs-Oregon Sportsman John S. Day, 55, uses his cheetah, Mike, for hunting and exercise. Exotic animals can be habit-forming. Jeri Hines, a Los Angeles divorcee with three children, bought a boa constrictor a couple of years ago. Since then, she has acquired an alligator, an aquatic toad, a green iguana and a tire eel, and has had to move to a new district because none of her neighbors would let their children into her house...