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...drive home their point, professionals like to tell the story of three men who went to Nairobi to start on a 14-month safari. When they left, the Dow-Jones average stood at 485, and when they got back, it was still at the same level. But one man found that his stocks had doubled in value; the second found that his had remained the same; and the third discovered that his investments had been cut in half...
KINGDOM OF THE BEASTS, by Julian Huxley and W. Suschitzky (159 pp.; Vanguard; $ 12.50), is the next best thing to a safari, or long afternoons spent at a zoo. The photographs are unusually fine and Zoologist Huxley contributes crisp and informative notes as well as a highly readable essay on the mammal world...
...passing, Internal Revenue's Bulletin made it clear that just because Sanitary Farms Dairy, Inc. of Erie, Pa. won a deduction for the cost of an African safari for business purposes, "taxpayers are cautioned" to make certain that any future African safaris had better be strictly business before the pith helmets are purchased, else expenses will not be deductible for tax purposes...
...Pontiacs, Oldsmobiles, Buicks and Cadillacs. Every division had something new, but this time the show stoppers were the station wagons. For the first time in six years, Oldsmobile will make a station wagon, will produce three Fiesta models in six-and eight-passenger styles. Pontiac has its sleek Safari models, prettied up even more than last year. And Buick will bring out a brand-new design, with low, racy lines like a hardtop convertible. Said Buick General Manager Edward T. Ragsdale: "Hardtop styling has proved to be the most popular body design in auto history. This year we are combining...
...from the evils of too many cocktail parties to what kind of clothing M.P.s should wear. Often these casual expressions of personal opinion determine national policies. One such statement resulted in the banning in India of films that show Africans in a "degrading light,"' e.g., as bearers on safari. Another killed a widely supported proposal to put a $5,000 ceiling on personal income in India...