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...chose to go on the B & M's Steam Safari to Portland, Maine, and the people with whom we went had too foresaken rest, church, comics, and TV. Instead we all got very sooty, and very tired, and very aesthetically fulfilled. For that one day of rest, you see, we were a brotherhood of a curious breed. It was a railroad enthusiasts' picnic...
...what you'll do to me this time," said the Italian farmer with just the trace of a smile on his lips. The busload of pleasantly jabbering tourists had stopped in Viggiano to avoid traversing the southern countryside during the very hottest part of the day. Most of the safari had headed straight for the nearest cafe and the combination of watered red wine and water which the proprietors dearly loved to sell tourists for only 25 times its cost. A few of the more enterprising members of the group wandered off, cameras ready, to look for "typically native scenes...
Court Tennis, usually restricted to wealthy athletes because of the scarcity of court tennis courts, is now in its third year of intercollegiate competition. It was revived by James Van Alen. Van Alen, brother of the United States Court Tennis Association President, will interrupt an African safari by flying to New York for the tourney...
...professionally, he bowed and sank into a chair. He went down massively, like a wounded elephant." Tiny is staggered by his fee-$1,800, which includes native servants, gear, a car and a truck. But since it is an anniversary present, her husband insists on their having a "luxury" safari...
White Hunter Buncher is scarcely a 20th century Natty Bumppo. When an accustomed signpost is missing along the well-rutted safari track, he gets lost and drives the party a whole day's journey off course into the veld. As drawn by Tiny, the White Hunter barely has brains enough to come in out of the rain. ("Bit of a mist, what?") With the constant physical discomforts and the incessant comic relief of The Nylon Safari, it sometimes seems that the grandeur and excitement of Africa itself rarely caught Tiny Cloete's eye. The Cloetes' closest brush...