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Maybe the Sasquatch is only the pipedream of Patterson, Napier, and other researchers including Rene Dahinden and Boris Porshnev (who was better known as a historian of peasant uprisings in France). Yet other missing links have been found: The gorilla, a shy creature not at all like King Kong, was a legendary jungle man until authenticated in the middle of the 19th century, and only in the last decade were reports of proto-pygmies in Tanzania born out by the discovery of the Gombe stream chimp. Napier estimates that a population of 500-1000 Bigfoot could explain all the footprints...

Author: By Richard Shepro, | Title: The Sasquatch Cometh | 3/26/1974 | See Source »

...When Hollywood sagged as a film center in the '60s, Savalas moved his wife Lynn and their three daughters to Europe, where he worked unenthusiastically as a villain in Italian potboilers. "One day," he says yearningly, "they will realize I can do a romantic story. Forget the gorilla exterior. Inside is a 16-year-old Romeo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: A Polish Sherlock | 12/31/1973 | See Source »

Aggravator is by far the best-known woman, burning up the CB waves with nonstop chatter. "She's built like a gorilla," says one trucker. "And her husband Earthquake ain't never said a word on the air." In many cases, CB pals never meet or learn each other's real names...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: Voices on the Road | 12/3/1973 | See Source »

...matchmaker and midwife. From four rare pygmy hedgehog tenrecs, 20 have been raised for other zoos and eleven kept on Jersey. From four African civet cats, 14 have been shipped off and nine kept for further breeding. The zoo's most expensive inmate, a $12,000 male lowland gorilla, fathered one infant in July, and has impregnated a second female. The most notable success is the whiteeared pheasant, possibly extinct in the wild. The zoo has bred 51 of them and exported ten pairs to seven countries...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: Animal Farm | 9/24/1973 | See Source »

...Harvard senior, Lewis Jones, got $25 a day to wear a gorilla costume and hand out leaflets in a shopping center in Peabody, Mass...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: ... If You Can Find It | 8/27/1973 | See Source »

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