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...trail four or five days old took Schaller to the gorillas within a few hours. Sometimes they fled when they saw him, but usually they showed mild interest and only slight fear. After a few encounters, Schaller and the animals were on the best of terms. He often crept close while they were bedding down for the night, and he slept less than 100 ft. away. He reports restfully that they never snore. But wide awake they are far from silent. Sometimes they purr like large contented cats, and for special occasions they make a great variety of noises: grunts...
...World: "There was one of those electric, potent silences, and he was kissing me and I was returning his kisses with everything I suddenly felt for him." Once, when Valerie was in Ireland on holiday, Profumo took Christine to his house in Regent's Park. "We crept around the lovely rooms and then we got to THEIR bedroom...
...director of the Vincennes zoo usually went home just before dark. The residents of his beaver cage rarely came out in the daylight. It seemed as if the man and the broad-tailed mammals might never meet. Then a crew of Dutch technicians crept close to the edge of the beaver pond on a black, moonless night. They sighted in with a short, cylindrical gadget, and the director finally saw his beavers-scuttling across the face of a TV picture tube that had been set up in his office...
...sinners "out in radioland" have been hearing it for years, sung with devotion by such groups as the Clara Ward Singers, the Stars of Faith and the Mighty Clouds of Joy. Recently, its spirit and style and shouts of "Yeah!" (but rarely the rest of the lyrics) have crept into popular music, but only Mahalia Jackson has been popularly successful with the pure version. A couple of years ago, Brother John Sellers and the Grandison Singers became the first to sing gospel in nightclubs. A thin flock of groups followed, some complaining bitterly that cheating preachers had driven them into...
...Cohen gave a fairly good impressionistic report of my speech. However two errors, one of sound, one of sense, crept in, all in one paragraph. I stated that more people were taking drugs out of boredom with what the society gives them. I cited the mass media as throwing shit from a barrel at them in the form of entertainment. As this statement came out in your paper it could be interrpreted [sic] as meaning all people us [sic] drugs out of boredom. It would not do to leave you with this low impression of drug users or drugs...