Word: rhinos
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Trans-Med. Four years ago, Susan Leslie, daughter of a Pan Am vice president, met Abu-Haidar during a visit to Beirut. Friendship blossomed. She was even more impressed on a safari to Kenya; Abu-Haidar, on crutches from a skiing accident, nevertheless managed to bring down a rhino. They were married in Scarsdale, N.Y., now live in Beirut with their two children...
...sheets. And although scientists generally agree that the major climatic changes of the past 50,000 years occurred at approximately the same time throughout the world, the disappearance of species did not. Thus the antlered giraffe disappeared from Africa more than 40,000 years ago, and the rhino-sized Diprotodon and giant kangaroo became extinct in Australia about 14,000 years ago. In Europe and Asia, the woolly rhinoceros and the woolly mammoth ceased to exist between 11,000 and 13,000 years ago, before the species disappeared in North America. Yet on Madagascar, the extinction of giant lemurs...
...WIZARD (ABC, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). Filmed at the Umfolozi Game Reserve in South Africa, "Rhino" recounts the capture of two rare white rhinos and other veld-roaming wild beasts in danger of extinction. Harry Guardino, Shirley Eaton and Robert Gulp star...
...refused to have any part in ceremonies celebrating the 40th anniversary of his flight. As a replica of the Spirit rose from Le Bourget, Charles A. Lindbergh was beyond radio contact or telephone in a game preserve in Java, hoping to catch a glimpse of a rare species of rhino...
Lalanne's prices are equally fantastic: $10,000 for the sheep or the housefly, $25,000 for the rhino. Among the happy few who have chosen to afford them: Designer Yves St. Laurent, who bought a rhino, and French Premier Georges Pompidou, who bought a pair of china ostriches whose beaks hold a metal board serving as a bar. And why does Lalanne spend his time creating such extravagant fancies? His answer is as good as any likely to be heard this spring: "For the most elementary reason-it amuses...