Word: rhinocerosity
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For the jaded, well-heeled tourist who has been everywhere, Kenya has something new in jungle sumptuousness. When his jet plane touches down in Nairobi, he is met by a brace of Rolls-Royces with zebra-skin upholstery. The cars whisk 125 miles north across Kikuyu country and draw up...
As the steel strike resumes, Labor Secretary Mitchell reconsiders his prediction that '60 will be "better than '59" and clandestinely orders a hat-shaped bottle of Haig & Haig to drink on the Capitol steps. From University Hall comes news that a rhinoceros has been appointed to the vacant Geography professorship...
It's gotten so bad, as a matter of fact, that a female rhinoceros in Brazil was elected City Councilman some time ago without once admitting she was a candidate. By a write-in, no less. Which all goes to show what a judicious "no comment" can do for you...
Four years ago, when the voters of industrial Jaboatão 1,150 miles north of Rio, went to the polls to elect new municipal officers, they showed their disgust with the incumbent Red-lining regime by electing a goat named Fragrant to the city council. Last week Sã...
Harvard voters undoubtedly have some sympathy for the rhino romp that marked the Sao Paulo contest. Elections on campus are often conducted in the same sort of spirit, and yield only slightly more fruitful results. Lamont DuPont had thinner skin and a less prominent nose than Carareco, the rhinoceros, but...