Word: chadli
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...Lake Chad region of French Equatorial Africa, a curious native custom has long puzzled anthropologists. Versed as they are in the world's habits from necking to nose-rubbing, the scholars have yet to figure out why the native women pierce their lips at girlhood, then put increasingly bigger straw and wood plugs in the holes to stretch their lips until they protrude like duck bills...
...none of Ray Jenkins' color, flamboyance or diffusiveness. He is scarcely as humorous as Joseph Nye Welch; on the other hand, Chadwick may be better able than Welch to cope with Washington rough-and-tumble. Said one fellow Chester lawyer: "I can't imagine McCarthy getting Chad so riled up that he'd break down and cry." This week Chadwick went to Washington to work for Watkins...
...Congo, .which drains much of Africa's rain forest through a steep-sided valley near its mouth. A dam at this point, says Ley, would form a lake big enough to cover California, Nevada and Oregon. The water would flow northward to fill an even bigger lake (the Chad Sea) in the Sahara, and eventually drain into the Mediterranean. The lakes would presumably improve the climate of much of Africa, and boats would reach the continent's heart through the "second Nile...
...president, N.A.M. elected Los Angeles Paint Manufacturer Harold Chadick ("Chad") McClellan, 56, the first Pacific Coast businessman to get the job. Only six years in the N.A.M., McClellan attracted notice as the representative of a West Coast faction in an N.A.M. family argument, smoothed over the difficulty so expertly that he eventually wound up as regional vice president. ("I got acquainted with people, and the rascals put me to work...
...bring-'em-back-alive man, and he probably knows as much about elephants in the raw as anybody living. In the '30s, Animal Trader Carlo Hagenbeck sent him out to kidnap a few calves from the great herds which still roam the noxious swamps around Lake Chad, in North Central Africa. He lived for four years within scent of elephants -"I became an elephant myself." In Komoonl (Berberi dialect for elephant) he tells what it was like. Author Oberjohann is no scientist; some of his conclusions about the big animals will strain the faith of stay-at-homes...