Word: elephantitis
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"That's an elephant, isn't it?" grinned Patrick Nugent. Proud and nervous, Pat announced to reporters at Austin's Seton Hospital that upstairs his wife Luci had just given birth to an 8-lb. 10-oz. son, the President's first grandchild. Name: Patrick Lyndon...
Lady Bird Johnson, who stood by in the hospital during her daughter's six hours' labor and delivery, immediately telephoned the news to her husband at the White House and was joshed about "being a grandma." Hearing about his son-in-law's elephant joke, Grandpa Johnson...
When the zoo opened recently, cages seemed necessary after all-for the children. A first-day mob of more than 15,000 of them, fresh out of school and impatient after long delays at the gates, tore the place apart. They smashed hatching quail eggs, hurled rocks at the ducks...
"It's the worst kind of destruction I've seen," said Zoo Keeper John Nichols. "It'll be too bad," added another attendant, "if we get a mean elephant out of this-she certainly isn't going to get any smaller." Yet, despite the opening-day...
The more Tors sees of animals, the less he thinks of man. "There are no natural enemies," he likes to say, "except man and woman." To prove that a peaceable kingdom is a possibility-at least on his 260-acre preserve near Los Angeles-he has combined such unlikely pen...