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...Cincinnati Zoo, over the din of squawking birds and roaring cats, grand opera is performed nightly in midsummer. Washington's National Zoo is notable for the contributions it gets from the White House-Teddy Roosevelt gave it a Somali ostrich, Calvin Coolidge a pigmy hippo, Franklin Roosevelt an Archangel pigeon...
...Aviv. British troops made widespread searches for terrorists, collared many in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem who were merely terrorized. The Jews managed sly smiles at a British announcement that 25 "known members of the extremist Irgun Zvai Leumi and Stern Gang had been taken during "Operation Hippo" (the Army's designation for its application of martial law). Said Tel Avivians: "Hippo labored and brought forth a mouse...
Outside Tel Aviv there were a few minor attacks during the week. But on Sabbath night, inside the cordoned area, came a spectacular defiance of the British military. Terrorists besieged the heavily fortified local headquarters for Hippo, rained mortar and machine-gun fire from roofs and nearby windows on it for 75 minutes. When the smoke cleared, the British announced the toll: one Briton killed, four Jews killed, 15 wounded...
Chip, and the O'Donnell brothers zipped down the sidelines while bruisers Vince Moravee and Hippo Glynn crashed the middle from one end of the court to the other. With such a lineup against them, the Deacons made sure that they didn't block the path recklessly...
...principle*made it all easy. In the hippo's tank they rigged up a contraption consisting of a hollow tube (stuck vertically in the water) enclosing a float attached to a moving arm arranged to swing around a marked scale. (On the basis of Archimedes' principle, the markings had been calibrated to register the weight of the water displaced, easily calculated from water's known weight by volume...