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Born. To Kevin McClory, 41, Irish movie producer, latest of the Bondsmen (Thunderball), and Fredericka Ann ("Bobo") Sigrist, 25, heiress to the Hawker-Siddeley aircraft fortune: their second child, a daughter (she also has a daughter by First Husband Gregg Juarez, with whom she eloped at 17); in Dublin...
...worried, has attacked Rockefeller as a carpetbagger, conjured up pitiful images of a poor little country boy running against the Rockefeller millions, seen to it that everyone has been reminded frequently of Rockefeller's sensational 1954 divorce and the subsequent $6,000,000 settlement with his first wife, Bobo. Stooping to the ludicrous, the Faubus workers have even sent broadsides to Arkansas barbers, claiming that Rockefeller always hops into his jet and flies to New York to get his haircuts...
...that he's rundown. Each day Bobo gets a massive dose of vitamin E, swigs pure wheat-germ oil, eight raw egg yolks, a jigger of thiamine and a 20-mg. jolt of male hormones. Each day also brings more letters, aphrodisiac recipes and snide phone calls from citizens who don't like what Bobo is doing to their city's image. Many Seattleites volunteer remedies: "Send Fifi away on a separate vacation," wrote one woman. "It works for me every time. Bobo will love her when she comes back." A man who lives on Puget Sound...
Woodland Park authorities think that Bobo's trouble may arise from an overprotected childhood. He was brought up by a couple like a human baby. He slept in a ribboned bassinet, ate in a high chair, sat on a potty, played pat-a-cake, and wore little-boy suits. When he became too obstreperous and was sold to the zoo at the age of 2½, he was so miserable with his clothes off, and so afraid of the other animals, that his foster mother came and slept in a cot by his side every night for three weeks...
...Kenneth Binkley, the zoo veterinarian, is pessimistic. His diagnosis: "Single male primates raised from babyhood in human homes are highly neurotic. Bobo has human inhibitions-he simply will not make an exhibition of himself in public...