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...native Rumania during the 1930's when his countrymen increasingly fell under the spell of fascism. The play is certainly a tract against conformist and the inhumanity it produces, but it goes far deeper than simple propaganda. If the various townspeople who rationalize and stumble their way into the rhino herd are absurd, Ionesco says, so is Berenger, the one man who holds out. His defiant profession of faith in humanity is farcical rather than heroic, showing that individuality in an indifferent universe can be as futile as conformity. At one point, Berenger even longs for the hard green armor...
...keeping the old hunter away from his guns. During the first break in the official proceedings, President Tito of Yugoslavia rushed pell-mell into the wilderness to take a few crack shots at East African wildlife. At the end of his safari, Tito felled a three-ton male rhino, a 21-ton buffalo and a "huge" lion...
...already taking advance reservations for 1973. Most shooting safaris last a minimum of 21 days, and they are exorbitantly expensive. In Kenya, the daily charge per person for four clients with two professional hunters is $422. That fee does not include clothing, game licenses ($300 for a single rhino, plus an extra $600 if the specimen shot turns out to be a female), rental of weapons, ammunition. National Parks entry fees, liquor, tips to the African gunbearers, cooks, guides and skinners, or taxidermy charges. Total bill for a 21-day hunt: about...
...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...