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...Governor, Chafee was confronted by a Democratic legislature, but he pushed through a state medicare bill that covers an estimated 45,000, expanded the state vocational program to provide training for the unemployed, authorized the acquisition of land for seven woodland and waterfront parks, and provided for a new state junior college...
Near Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee is a green woodland dot with man-made pits and a steadily pond. Both pits and pond been used for the disposal of ra wastes, so an 8-ft. chain-link fringed with barbed wire keeps people away from the dangers. Unmanned monitor stations, looking like small refrigerators packed with instruments, keep for signs of trouble. Last sum some of the monitors began to give high readings. One reported than one roentgen per hour, and takes an accumulated dose of only roentgens to kill...
...Seattle is distressed about Bobo. He is the 560-lb. star of Woodland Park zoo, just turned 13, in the prime of life. He is one of the handsomest, healthiest gorillas in captivity. But Bobo has a problem: he doesn't like girl gorillas...
...Woodland Park authorities think that Bobo's trouble may arise from an overprotected childhood. He was brought up by a couple like a human baby. He slept in a ribboned bassinet, ate in a high chair, sat on a potty, played pat-a-cake, and wore little-boy suits. When he became too obstreperous and was sold to the zoo at the age of 2½, he was so miserable with his clothes off, and so afraid of the other animals, that his foster mother came and slept in a cot by his side every night for three weeks...
Outside, a narrow raised garden will surround the building, leading, in Disneyland fashion, past a small orchard and through a miniature woodland of birches and ferns. The front entrance area, facing Shepard Street, will be landscaped in grass and concrete, and enclosed by a high wall alternating sections of brick with wrought iron bars...