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...rogue male, whose treetop wanderings inspired local farmers to name him after the high-speed roadway that encircles Paris. Like all howl er monkeys, black or red, Peripherique has an amazingly overdeveloped set of vocal chords: his mere coo, echoing across the valley like the roar of a hungry lion, has startled many an unwary tourist. Rather more astonishing is the fact that he roams the Dordogne at all. Peripherique's proper habitat is the rain forests of the Amazon River valley half a world away. Yet he and 36 other delicate South American primates flourish in the Dordogne...
...Continent, the perpetual bachelor commenced the affair that was to last a lifetime. Heinrich Heine provides the best description of Prima Donna Pauline Viardot: "Her ugliness is of a kind that is noble and, if I might almost say beautiful, such as sometimes enchanted and inspired the great lion-painter Delacroix." She was married -and remained married-to Louis Viardot, a prosperous litterateur. Viardot and Turgenev met and found much in common: an interest in writing, bird shooting and Pauline...
...first six months to 17,000 in the six months following the Soweto riots. Citing "unfavorable political developments in southern Africa," the government of Prime Minister John Vorster last month an nounced a tough new budget, with $640 million in new taxes (out of $8.9 bil lion) and record-breaking defense costs. A White Paper on defense, issued during the current session of parliament, calls for an expansion of the armed forces, an extension of the draft for white males (from one year to two), and voluntary recruitment of white women and black men. The need, concludes the report...
...Love My Wife, directed by Gene Saks with the unerring control of a lion tamer of farce, is dotted with paralyzingly funny sight gags. One is provided by Lenny Baker, an immensely gifted clown, as he divests himself of each article of clothing, except his shorts (no one strips to the buff), with the chloroformed zeal of an inhibited zombie. Another is the foursome in bed poring over a sex manual as if it were the Das Kapital of the erotic revolution and deciding who is to be A, B, C and D in a horizontal power play...
...headed by retired Chicago Banker Gaylord Freeman, estimates that dropping Saturday deliveries would save the Postal Service $412 million a year. The commission will also recommend further mechanization of mail handling to save $134 million annually, and suggest other improvements in management and productivity that would save $78 mil lion. Total savings: $624 million annually. Also proposed is the gradual elimination of subsidized postal rates for nonprofit organizations...