Word: safaris
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Cambridge will send one of its fire engines--incognito--on an 1100 mile safari to Kenosha, Wisconsin, early next year...
Dominican Playboy Porfirio Rubirosa moseyed into Bogotá, Colombia to make preparations for a genuine treasure hunt. Bracing himself for his safari's plunge into the Choco wilds on Colombia's Pacific Coast, Rubi, out to make the jungle give up some platinum and gold, first tested his luck at a race track, won a cool 9,600 pesos on a 100-to-1 shot. He also took his ease in Bogotá's elegantly stuffy Jockey Club, where he complained about the absence of vodka (he thirsted in vain for a Bloody Mary). Colombia...
Charlie is the character with the largest bubble. Most of his time at College he devotes to organizing a jeep safari to Bhutan, a "terrific country" somewhere on top of Tibet. As he himself explains, "I just wanna do one cosmic thing before I turn completely middle-aged and start making the same noise as all the other bees." For a while Charlie's Smith College girl gives him able support. But then she decides she would prefer to get married. "It might be dull," she says, "but it's definitely the coming thing...
...skittish, and the arrows did not hit them hard enough to penetrate their inch-thick hides. So Dr. Goetz spiked rifle bullets with curare mixed with powdered sugar, and shot them into a giraffe's hindquarters. In 45 minutes the muscles were paralyzed. Then Dr. Goetz and his safari mates hobbled the giraffe's legs, put a blindfold over its eyes, and erected around it three tons of builders' steel scaffolding. When all was secure, he injected a curare antidote. The paralysis disappeared, but the giraffe found itself in a cage and at the doctor...
...Goetz believes that "we have only touched the fringes" of the giraffe problem. Next time he goes on safari, he will be equipped with better apparatus. When giraffes are fully understood, he hopes, something constructive can be done for human jet-plane pilots, who suffer from the changes of blood pressure that giraffes avoid...