Word: iguana
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...conserve the herds of elephant, rhinoceros, giraffe, wildebeest and antelope that roam the rugged Serengeti Plain 150 miles from the slopes of Mount Kilimanjaro. Taking care of animals is nothing new to young Kennedy: at home in Hickory Hill he has tended over a crawling, fluttering menagerie of one iguana, one scaly teju, two hawks, two geese, six chickens, six golden pheasants, and assorted turtles, snakes, and leopard frogs...
Acapulco, top Pacific Coast beach resort, has no less than 83 international jet flights each week. Even such a recently discovered beach resort as Puerto Vallarta, made famous by the film The Night of the Iguana, is now rushing to completion its own $3,300,000 jet airfield, installing the town's first dial telephones and nearly doubling hotel accommodations...
...transformed into the precious wine of life. The old man, raging against the dying of light, is finally silenced by a stroke and wheeled into death, a skeletal zombie in a hospital chair. Alan Webb, 61, who played the 97-year-old poet in Williams' Night of the Iguana, might have been invented for this role. It is not only physical decrepitude that he conveys but also the humiliated fury of a proud, spirited and ruthless man cowed by the gradual loss of mind and authority...
Anguilla's small reputation (most people who have heard of it know only that "small" is the adjective, and persist in referring to it as "Iguana") results mainly from a full-page ad inserted in the New York Times of Aug. 14. "Is it 'silly' that Anguilla does not want to become a nation of bus boys?" the ad asked plaintively. The Times had only a week earlier described Anguilla's declaration of independence as "touching and silly...
...Michael, 8, on The Great Slaughter, a treatise on man's inhumanity to beast. Young Bobby already knows most of the basics about wildlife just from watching his own private animal kingdom at home in Mc-Lean, Va., where he tenderly harbors a scaly tegu named Thor, an iguana, two hawks, six chickens, two geese, six golden pheasants and assorted turtles and frogs, to say nothing of the family's five dogs and four horses. He used to have a fierce, 31-ft. Oriental dragon. "But the dragon ate the chameleons, and then one day he was eaten...