Word: kangaroos
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...Mongolian gerbil (pronounced jur-bill), a ball of fluff only four inches long (plus three inches of tufted tail) that looks and leaps like a vest-pocket kangaroo. It is socially quite acceptable, has impeccable manners and irresistible charm. Its credentials are faultless: a desert species native to Eastern Europe, Asia and Africa, it is clean, odorless and friendly, eats little (sunflower seeds, lettuce, corn), excretes less (three drops of urine a day), and never bites. Besides all this, it is happy, playful, loyal, fearless, curious, and can be taught tricks...
...Bergdorf Goodman. This time, for an opener and attempted topper, she gawked girlishly through the hallowed marble halls of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, singing as a Modigliani lady, now a latter-day Nefertiti, now Marie Antoinette. Later, she serenaded her poodle in French (with subtitles), tromped like a kangaroo on a trampoline, played Tarzan on a trapeze, juxtaposed noses with an anteater and hoofed with a squad of penguins...
Next Heath tried to capitalize on the sensational news of a kangaroo trial of seven nonstriking workmen by strikers at a British Motors Corp. plant. He hoped to use the incident as an example of how badly the nation needs the trade-union reform plan that he is pushing. Heath even briefly postured as a British De Gaulle, characterizing the French President's NATO-wrecking as "helpful" and darkly warning Britain against too much dependence on the U.S. So far, none of Heath's attacks have scored...
Civil Process. Politically, too, Spain is better off. The political prisons of the civil war have long since been emptied, the fascist fanatics of the old Falangist Party long since suppressed. Police no longer torture political suspects. The old military kangaroo courts have given way to civil process. Censorship has been somewhat relaxed, and editors have been encouraged to discuss subjects unthinkable a decade ago: two papers last year were allowed to call for a legal opposition party, and a slick magazine published an interview with a film director attacking censorship itself...
...here they may play baseball with a rabbit ball, but Down Under they must play golf with a kangaroo ball. Or so it seemed last week, as South Africa's Gary Player and the U.S.'s Jack Nicklaus made a shambles of Adelaide's Kooyonga Golf Course in the Australian Open...