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Infancy wheels two baby carriages into Manhattan's Central Park. Up pop two tottery man-sized heads. These premature grownups in baby bonnets promptly explain that their caterwauling tantrums are not simple diaper and meal calls, as adults believe, but stem from a voracious and frustrated thirst for learning. They want to walk, talk, build houses, and have babies of their own. Their keepers, a fat mother who gorges herself on candy-counter goodies and a nurse who gobbles up drugstore novels, are shown to be truly infantile. But after the age-group hourglass has been turned upside down...
...human children have been treated with more cautious care. Dressed by a team of tender technicians, the little chimpanzee was togged out in spotless diaper and nylon mesh space suit, then zippered into a fitted contour couch that looked like a cradle trimmed with electronics. After two hours of fussing, Enos. the 5½-year-old chimponaut, was ready to ride the first passenger-carrying orbital flight of U.S. Project Mercury. His cradle was fitted into a Mercury capsule on the nose of an Atlas rocket...
Jean always carves, but if she does little things like that beyond the customary wifely duties, he, as a husband, is St. Walter of Larchmont. Several afternoons a month, he gets behind a shopping cart in a Post Road supermarket. Moreover, he knows all about diaper pins, he doles out the petty cash ("We never hit Mom for money," say the boys), and, above all, he types her manuscripts, which, as any writer will understand, makes him a sort of household Nathan Hale. He also criticizes her work as it progresses, sending her back to the typewriter to fill...
Gelatin & Diaper. For breakfast Chimp No. 65 got an ounce of baby cereal, 4 oz. of condensed milk, cooking oil, gelatin, vitamins and half an egg. Then he was wired for recording instruments, dressed in a baby diaper and strapped on his back on a personally fitted contour couch, his arms left free. The environmental control system (air pressure, oxygen, temperature, etc.) was much the same as for a human astronaut...
Asleep or Awake. Japan was no wet diaper, but "a scented bath which gives you electric shocks at unexpected moments." Many of the shocks came from Zen Buddhism, which Koestler feels makes sense in Japan's rigidly conformist social structure. "Taken at face value and considered in itself," he writes, "Zen is at best an existentialist hoax, at worst a web of solemn absurdities. But within the frame work of Japanese society, this cult of the absurd, of ritual leg-pulls and nose-tweaks, made beautiful sense. It was, and to a limited extent still is, a form...