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...examples of such unproductive infatuations. One of his zoo's prized possessions, a 5-ft.-high African shoebill stork, barely acknowledges the presence of a female acquired especially for him. Instead, he saves all the normal male shoebill signs of affection- lowered head, lively clapping of the wooden-shoe-shaped bill, peculiar gulping noises -for his caretaker. Sometimes animal passions become actively embarrassing; recently, while a repairman was crouching in an emu's enclosure, the huge, ostrichlike Australian bird decided that the intruder was a female emu and behaved accordingly. At times the sexual play verges...
Families in Transition. With pampering comes primping. There is no end to which teen-age girls will not go, from shampooing their mounts' tails and fixing them with hair set to employing liquid shoe polish to cover up especially stubborn stall stains. All decked out, a horse must have some place to go, and one answer is the U.S. Pony Clubs ("Our Little League," says one mother). There are also the full-fledged horse shows, now almost weekly events in areas where there were once only three a year...
Many businessmen find that their losses are all the worse because their insurance was canceled after last summer's riots. Others canceled policies on their own because rates were raised be yond what they could afford. Morris Gordon, whose family owned a shoe store in Pittsburgh's Hill District since 1885, says that after his coverage was cut by one-third this year, he shopped around and got another policy-at almost double the $1,285.20 premium he had been paying. And he considers himself one of the fortunate few. His shop was wiped...
...Parties. The suit was filed by a New York wholesale shoe salesman named Morton Eisen, who felt that he had been charged excessive brokerage fees for odd lots (less than 100 shares) of stock he had bought and sold. Nearly 99% of all U.S. odd-lot transactions go through two Wall Street firms, so Eisen had a convenient target for his suit. The firms were also vulnerable because the Securities and Exchange Commission had disclosed in 1963 that their virtual monopoly on odd-lot trading had led to abuses. Claiming that the abuses amounted to illegal price fixing, Eisen sued...
There is also occasional humor: Sellers trying to retrieve his shoe from his host's elaborate system of interior fountains and waterways; Sellers drifting from group to group, making inscrutable attempts at conversation; Sellers listening to a songstress while exhibiting a polite rictus of squirming agony because all the bathrooms are occupied. But most of the evening is just about as trite and tedious as a real-life party would have been with such a stereotyped guest list-the dumb cowboy star, the stuffy clubwoman, the fading movie queen, the international-society siren, the current sex symbol...