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...name given them by 19th century writers from the word Aztlan, their mythic home in the north) were capable of building aqueducts to bring fresh water to the capital, were skilled agriculturalists, wrote lyrical poetry, admired and preserved the artistry of earlier Mesoamerican civilizations and even kept a zoo...
...with even longer pedigrees arrived from New York in a far different but no less intriguing deal that will bring three Soviet horses to the U.S. The object: to improve the breed on both sides of the Atlantic. The animals, a stallion and a mare born in the Bronx Zoo and a mare from San Diego's zoo, are rare Przewalski's horses. Discovered in Mongolia a century ago by the Polish-born Russian army colonel for whom they are named, Equus przewalskii is the only truly wild, totally undomesticated horse still left on earth. The stocky beasts...
...ourselves), seem somehow . . .inadequate. Our literature paces like an un-happy animal in a small cage. On the whole, we learn no more about the meaning of things from our "creative" writers than a child learns about wildlife by watching the disconsolate, paranoid polar bear in the Central Park Zoo. The brute scowls and flips a beer keg around his stagnant pool and dreams of killing someone: a perfect model of the literary life...
...including the Temple of Dendur Pavilion, the Michael C. Rockefeller Primitive Art Wing and the Robert Lehman Pavilion. New corporate headquarters for Union Carbide Corp., General Foods Corp. and Conoco Inc. are nearing completion. Early this month plans were announced for redesigning New York's Central Park Zoo...
Irena recoils in horror and disbelief. She has already fallen in love with another man--the curator of the zoo...