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...Many were sure that he was not enough of a politician to carry his Christian Democratic Union to victory in last month's elections. When Erhard won overwhelmingly, doubters predicted humiliating defeat for him in the intricate task of forming a new Cabinet. The Gummilöwe (Rubber Lion) would surely knuckle under to Bonn's wily professional politicians in the scramble for ministerial seats...
...dogged Indians. Back on the set, he found even such old pros as Major, the 500-lb. lion, were acting up. When Major refused to roar on cue, his trainer jabbed him in the nose with a long pole. No luck. Director Robert Day then ordered a native crewman to sneak up from behind and prod Major's rump. The Brazilian blanched and declined-until he was given an on-the-spot salary hike. Later on, Major shifted from depressive to manic, escaped during a Rio zoo take, sent visitors scrambling for their lives as he rambled free...
...Crimson victory was the meet impressive, but who's to say the Tigers vote running all out? Allen, in third place, was the top Harvard finisher in the Quaker-Lion meet, while Andreini, in fourth place behind Penn's Radcliffe Thompson, was the low scorer for the Tigers...
...budding governments have composed their own. Senegal's anthem ("The red Lion has roared/The Tamer of the Bush has jumped forward") was written by Poet-President Leopold Senghor, Jamaica's by the Minister of Industry, the Ivory Coast's by its Information Minister. Malaysia expropriated an Indonesian love song called Moonlight, changed the words, then banned the original version. Kenya's solution was to graft the hymnlike words of one proposed anthem ("O God of all creation/Bless this our land and nation") onto the music of a Pokomo tribal lullaby...
...Harvard's three touchdowns Columbia were set up by the inside linebacker Bob Barrett a punt at the Lion six-yard line, and Ken Boyda recovered a Columbia at the 22-yard line. The offense's consistency has been in capitalizing the opportunities presented...