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Across the street in Charity Hospital, other surgeons made an incision in Davis' right flank. They implanted the chimp's ureters in Davis' bladder, and made artery and vein connections. Within ten minutes after the hookup, Adam's kidneys began to purify Davis' blood and produce urine...
...being given the runaround. The Russians, she said, may soon launch a Mongolian woman into orbit ("They are a small, hardy race used to high altitudes"), while the first space-bound U.S. female may be a chimpanzee. "There's a $1,000,000 budget for a place called Chimp College, New Mexico," said the angry Jerrie, "where at least one female, named Glenda, is taking astronaut training...
Over Australia, Schirra changed the attitude of his capsule, but he did it very slowly to save precious peroxide fuel. Nearing Mexico, Schirra announced that he was flying "chimp configuration," meaning that he was on the fuel-saving automatic control as if a chimp were piloting. When he heard that all was favorable for the full six orbits, he cried, "Hallelujah!" and over Hawaii he called out, "Aloha!" At one point, he radioed back to earth: "I have a delightful report for one John Glenn. I, too, see fireflies"-the luminous particles first noticed by Glenn outside the capsule...
...balloon itself: a big, pink, candy-striped burp that floats above a unicorny dreamboat possibly borrowed from Disneyland. He also has a few snickers for the leathery old hams with which Balloon is ballasted: Sir Cedric Hardwicke, Peter Lorre, Red Buttons, Herbert Marshall, Billy Gilbert, Chester the Chimp-the ape apes them all and in the process manages slyly to suggest that they are all making monkeys of themselves. Gravely he lists the cinema cliches associated with African adventure: senile rented lions, brffsking British bwanas, bulbous Viennese sheiks, disdressed American beauties, big dumb tribesmen who look suspiciously like studio Indians...
...Himalayan hunt for the Abominable Snowman in 1960. St. Louis should prove almost as lively. Among the charges passed on by retiring (after 40 years) Zoo Director George P. Vierhel-ler, 79: a troupe of dancing elephants, a joint lion-tiger-leopard training act, and Mr. Moke, the talking chimp (com plete vocabulary: "mamma...