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Geologist Lee Merriam Talbot, 25 is an animal man by heritage: his grandfather, C. Hart Merriam, was the first chief of the U.S. Biological Survey. So when the Survival Service of the International Union for the Protection of Nature, formed under UNESCO sponsorship, offered him a job, Talbot snapped...
...beyond the wildest dreams of the ex-Marine ecologist. His assignment: to travel through the Near East and Southeast Asia, paying calls on animals threatened with extinction, and try to figure out how to keep them from following the dodo. Last week Talbot was back in the U.S., having escaped extinction himself on several occasions by a narrow margin, and bringing curious tales about the "fossils of the future." Rhino & Cures. The biggest of the threatened animals is the Indian rhinoceros, of which only a few hundred survive. A creature that only an animal man could love...
...resents ecologists, as it does everything else, so Talbot made his survey from the back of a tall bull elephant. Once he came face to face with a mother rhino as she bathed her child in a mud wallow...
...elephant wheeled and bolted. The rhino charged, snorting in the elephant's wake and trying to gore him with her 24-in. horn. Talbot watched from the rumble seat as the rhino drew alongside the elephant and ripped an 18-in. gash in his side. Then the two animals veered apart as if on diverging rails. "I suppose " says Talbot, "that mama went back to her baby and told him: That's how it's done...
...interrupted for hard-selling commercials by Westinghouse. Diana Lynn was somewhat characterless as the dedicated girl who spurns Hollywood's gold; Peggy Ann Garner shone briefly as the disappointed actress who tries suicide but (in TV's version of the play) doesn't succeed, and Nita Talbot, as a wisecracking bystander, got the few laughs registered by the studio audience...