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...elephant in captivity, says Heinrich Oberjohann, is a pious fraud-a nine-foot canting hypocrite that gives the human public what it wants while privately laughing up its trunk at the hairless little apes. Only in the wilds of Asia and, better still, of Africa, can elephant nature be seen in the raw; and then usually only by other elephants, for the largest of land animals is also one of the more elusive...
...once, at the edge of a forest, "I stood beside a dark grey rock, twelve feet high." It was the mother. "Her eyes were uncanny, fixed and empty." Oberjohann judged that she "had actually been driven mad by her boundless sorrow at losing her child. I prodded her trunk lightly with my bamboo staff." Dully, she moved away. Next night she destroyed a native village, but Oberjohann never saw her again...
...models of the Chrysler line have smoother lines than the 1952s, with one-piece "wraparound" windshields and rounded corners at the top of the body. Though the car is an inch lower, head room has been increased. Visibility has been improved with 2 sq. ft. more glass area; the trunk compartment has 44% more luggage space. To such standard Chrysler extras as power steering, there will be added a new one: air conditioning...
Decentralization. In Raleigh, N.C., when police started to give Robert L. Williams a ticket for driving his newly purchased used car without a license, the headlights fell off, the trunk lid fell off, and the bumper fell...
...small unit, located in the trunk compartment and controlled from the dashboard, will work like an office air-conditioner, pumping cold air into the car through a grill behind the rear seat...