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...lions at Thoiry, meanwhile, have become so bored with the million visitors who come to see them each year, with tearing apart rubber tires supplied by the viscount or with hunting rabbits that the prides think of little more than their passions. "The lovemaking record is held by a lion who had 64 couplings in one day -with the same lioness," La Panouse claims. When an understandably skeptical visitor asked, "Who counted?" the viscount replied, "One of the keepers. They don't have much to do all day long." Even if they are French cats, that kind of performance...
...squeaky and carries an autograph book. The family's closest friends have to wait outside in their cars in the parking lot and call up to the window, "Is Lobo O.K.?" The kids hold the raging beast down, inside the house, until a split-second before the visitor comes in the front door. Then Lobo is allowed to rush out the back door, a tornado of bristles and snarls, in a vain (hopefully) attempt to race around the establishment and up the front steps in time to rip the pants off whoever is going in the front door...
...conservative speed of 30 m.p.h., a visitor needs just one minute, 43 seconds to drive from the flower-banked eastern boundary of Plains, Ga. (pop. 683), past the covered wooden sidewalks that front the town's eight stores, beyond the huge sign that proclaims PLAINS, GEORGIA, HOME OF JIMMY CARTER, to the water tower at the west-side fringe. There have been Carters in Southwest Georgia for 150 years?cotton farmers, Civil War soldiers, merchants and businessmen...
Over double Scotches in his private drawing room, Egypt's President Anwar Sadat confided to an American visitor early last week that he might shortly move to consolidate his power. He had just dismissed his chief rival, left-leaning Vice President Ali Sabry (TIME, May 17), and he hinted at further moves to strengthen his hold. Even so, few expected him to move as quickly and boldly as he did. Later in the week, in rapid-fire succession, Sadat fired Egypt's tough Interior Minister Shaarawi Gomaa and accepted the resignations of War Minister General Mohammed Fawzi, Minister...
...victim-a frequent visitor of Sanctuary-was described by counsellors at Sanctuary as 18 or 19 years old. A "traveler" who was said to have come from Indiana, he was known only by the name of "Stevie Wonder...