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Then one day he visited the Vincennes zoo. There he learned that 600 varieties of mammals are facing extinction; no species have already disappeared from earth just since 1800. Matta was relatively young (30), making $280 a month in an export-import firm in Paris, and marked for advancement. But he never hesitated. He threw over both present prosperity and future prospects to take a $160-a-month job as superintendent of the 2,000,000-acre Bouna game reserve, 500 miles upcountry from Abidjan...
Wonton-sized Nancy Ka Shen Kwan (5 ft. 2 in., 104 lbs.) is the most delicate Oriental import since Tetley's tender little tea leaves. Last week 2O-year-old Nancy was before the cameras in London filming The World of Suzie Wong, and from the first frame the part fitted like her own freckles. Furthermore, the new "yum-yum girl" has saved the movie...
Well-to-do Australians who used to import their art now decorate their homes with Sidney Nolan's poetic visions of Australia's "outback," William Dobell's savagely realistic portraits, or the landscapes of the late Aborigine Albert Na-matjira. And with Ray Lawler's play, Summer of the Seventeenth Doll-which got raves in London-Aussie audiences for the first time accorded box-office success to a play by an Australian about Australians in the Australian language...
...Amherst. No one feels this more keenly than Massachusetts' able President Jean Paul Mather, who will quit this spring in protest against low faculty pay (TIME, Aug. 31). Last week Mather's 5,200 students offered another kind of protest to the penny-pinching state legislature. To import sorely needed "cosmopolitan contacts," Senior Winthrop F. Sheerin, 25, of West Stockbridge, Mass., proposed that a "distinguished visitors' " chair be endowed by the students themselves. Instantly approved, an annual $3 head tax will raise an estimated $17,500, hopefully attract all sorts of illustrious lecturers, from Poet...
...that is the import of these five questions, 'the separation of Church and State' is indeed in very serious trouble, not so much from the Roman Catholic hierarchy with its inept political maneuvers, but from the priests and prophets of the new idolatry...