Word: pets
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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CHILDREN'S FILM FESTIVAL (CBS, 1:30-2:30 p.m.). The Little Bearkeepers is a Czechoslovak tale of a little boy who grows up at a zoo and has a pet bear cub that is to be exchanged for a baby elephant belonging to a group of Asian children...
...volunteer workers for animals, we certainly see the true situation. With 40 million surplus, unplaceable cats and dogs that pet owners permit to be born each year, the suffering we see would fill several books...
...Earl of Cranbrook feeds his pet bats on a special mixture of egg yolk, cream cheese and banana. He says, "I keep the bats for about three months, then let them go." When the late Jayne Mansfield tried to smuggle her two Chihuahuas into England, she won the sympathy of the pet-fancying British public by clutching the animals to her celebrated chest and proclaiming, "They appeal to my mother instinct." Ronald Reagan, finding that he was getting on badly with his mongrel, put himself and the dog through a $250 course of psychotherapy at a Beverly Hills ca nine...
...Pint for the Puma. Unleashing twelve months of research, Mrs. Szasz concedes that pets can provide educational insights into nature. She details the successful efforts of therapists who use pets in diagnosing and treat ing mentally disturbed children. But man has become neurotic, she contends, when owners take pet alligators for drives, buy hairpieces for dogs and lacetrimmed nightgowns for cats, give the puma a pint of beer as a nightcap, and make unnecessary gourmet viands the fastest-growing segment of the U.S. petfood market. Some owners bury their canaries and pooches under massive marble tombstones in special cemeteries. Only...
...past year from 527.8 billion to 526.5 billion. Many teenagers no longer feel obliged to smoke; it is no longer necessarily the thing to do. Responding to these ill portents, cigarette companies have accelerated their diversification drives, which have spread them into such businesses as soft drinks, cosmetics and pet foods...