Word: pachyderm
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soon to ride in triumph on your great pachyderm...
Crew is a traditional first place for the Elephants, but pachyderm strength in the other sports seems to be offset by equally powerful Kirkland outfits...
...Bronx Zoo. In Thailand, a U-Ride-It elephant is still a bargain at $2.50 a day (one-tenth as much as a rented truck), and is still hard to beat when it comes to bird watching, spraying treetops or hauling logs. But it is impossible to find pachyderm parking space in Bangkok. Shrugs a taxicab mahout: "Elephant too much fighting, too much kicking, too much eating. I like Plymouth. Plymouth only takes gas one time...
...public trademark, made as much copy out of her unsexiness as Zsa Zsa Gabor makes out of her libido. "Crawling out of bed, I girdled myself," she would write, "with the aid of a block and tackle." Or, "I've been favorably compared to a whale, a pachyderm, a hippopotamus, an untidy featherbed, an Eskimo igloo during the summer thaw, a charwoman at daybreak. Prince Christian of Hesse, spotting me in bathing costume offshore at Antibes, mistook me for a rubber mattress. But I became a celebrity anyhow...
...Economist John Kenneth Galbraith, 54, returning to Harvard after more than two years as U.S. Ambassador to India. Saying his goodbyes in New Delhi, the lanky professor paid a last visit with his family to the zoo, where they once spent a few queasy minutes getting used to the pachyderm pace. Though a certain tension had developed between Galbraith and his colleagues back home in Foggy Bottom, he declared himself "pleased, extremely pleased" with his tour of duty. India apparently was pleased too. In a rare break with protocol, Prime Minister Nehru publicly lauded Galbraith. "I am sorry...