Word: monkeyism
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Somebody is always trying to make a monkey out of modern art. This time it was Peter, 4½, a West African chimpanzee with a penchant for paint, who lives in Sweden's Boras zoo. Newsmen on the Goteborgs-Tidningen, a Goteborg daily, got Peter's 17-year-old keeper to give him a brush and oil paints. Peter took to daubing like a duck to water. He painted all over the floor; he painted all over his keeper; he even painted all over a few canvases. He ate whole tubes of cobalt blue, leading to the speculation...
Maggie claims that she is not out to monkey-wrench any other candidate. "I am going to run my own campaign on my own record," says she. "I am running against no one. I'd like to be President. I think my experience and my record are greater than any other candidate or any other of the unannounced candidates. It's a real chal lenge, and that's one of the paramount things. When people keep telling you that you can't do a thing, you kind of like...
BANGKOK, Thailand, Jan. 23--President Sukarno of Indonesia has thrown a monkey wrench into mediation machinery built up by U. S. Atty. Gen. Robert F. Kennedy for a settlement of the Malaysian crisis...
...rate, Kenya seemed well on the way to solving its unemployment problem. To qualify for veterans' benefits, Nairobi's neediest only have to trot out of town, drape themselves in a monkey skin and return chanting a Mau Mau jingle. It was all a little embarrassing for Prime Minister Jomo Kenyatta. Branch offices of his ruling KANU party, having promised to feed all newly returned Mau Maus until they get settled, were going broke all through the former White Highlands, where the self-styled heroes aim to get 16-acre farms on the Mau Mau bill of rights...
...Reemtsma: "We have taken every precaution with this transplant. Even if it should now fail, we could still defend its use ethically and medically." One factor that gives this operation a better chance of success than the woman's is that her transplant, from a 25-lb. monkey, had small capacity. But even if they functioned at only 50% efficiency, the 80-lb. Adam's kidneys would still be capable of clearing the blood for the 130-lb. Davis...