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...pulled at my eyelids to find out what they concealed? I couldn't be certain about this." These titillating opening sentences promise events sinister, portentous or at least symbolic. But "he" turns out to be nothing more alarming than a pet monkey who had wandered into the visitor's hut in a game reserve in Kenya. The reader is soon introduced to the monkey's owner - a precocious ten-year-old girl who can converse familiarly with animals and gets no back talk...
...crossbreed Lolita with Rima, the bird-girl, and to enhance the result with the mystical animal overtones of Romain Gary's The Roots of Heaven. He professes to see Patricia as a study in "the passage from innocence to non-innocence." But the reader who, like the monkey, pulls at Kessel's eyelids is apt to find they conceal nothing except what meets...
...operating table, Able's heart began to fibrillate. For 2¼ hours Dr. Davis and others worked over the sinking monkey. Dr. Davis tried to revive her by blowing his own breath into her lungs. Other doctors cut into her chest, gave her heart electric shocks and massaged it by hand. But Able was dead. Next morning her carcass was flown in a small suitcase to Walter Reed Army Hospital in Washington, where an autopsy was performed by Colonel Joe M. Blumberg, who had orders not to mar unnecessarily her historic skin...
...Then it was explained that last-minute tests of the button circuit showed that it was setting up interference in other circuits and it had therefore been turned off. Last week word leaked out that neither explanation was correct. Truth was that Able was a substitute off the space-monkey bench...
...case of 11 oz. Monkey Baker was simpler and happier. She hailed from the jungle near Iquitos, Peru. Her electrodes were successfully removed under local anesthesia by a Navy doctor. The Navy hopes to breed her in a year or so, and examine her offspring for genetic effects of space...