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Although U.S. officials deny any violation of that agreement, the Defense Nuclear Agency reports that in five years ending last June, AFRRI used 1,379 primates-undoubtedly nearly all of them rhesus monkeys-in its tests. One typical set of tests was designed to simulate the effects of the neutron bomb, which kills not by blast or burning but by radiation. In order to determine monkeys' work capacity when healthy, they were conditioned by means of electric shocks to run on a treadmill for six hours. Then they were subjected to huge doses of radiation -from...
...while Evangelical Christianity claims 45 million adherents, the movement has had little positive impact or influence on the formative ideas of American culture, in our great universities, or in our communications media. This is not surprising, since this philosophy's public image is one of book bannings, Scopes monkey trials and Anita Bryant crusades. If such lunacy is supposed to "save" America, you'll forgive my stifled laughter...
...School will give you a great chance to brush up on bestiality at a seminar on "Courtship Behavior in Different Species," featuring Dr. Antonio Asturias, Professor of Sex Education (no lie), at the U. of San Carlos, Guatemala City, Guatemala. Go to 45 Shattuck St. and moon a monkey...
...perspective, animals are not benign machines that live for the group and kill only to eat. Instead, they are programmed for selfish, even murderous acts when survival and propagation are threatened. This radical shift in thinking is shown most dramatically by studies of India's sacred monkey, the hanuman langur. In 1965, a naturalist wrote that the long-tailed black and gray langurs were "relaxed" and "nonaggressive." Now, a Harvard researcher has shown that the langur society operates more like the House of Borgia, complete with kidnaping, constant sexual harassment, group battles, abandonment of some wounded young by their...
...dandy of American art is a woman, Louise Nevelson. Nobody is more recognizable: the fine, blade-nosed Aztec face with its monstrous false eyelashes, like clumps of mink, is as manifestly the property of an artist as Picasso's monkey mask. The sight of Nevelson under full sail-mole-colored hunting cap, peasant flounces, Chinese brocade and wolfskin, bronze pendants clanking, boar's teeth rattling-is one of the few spectacles of complete self-possession in American life; the 19th century poet who walked his live lobster on a ribbon outside the Ritz could not have looked more...