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From the moment he saw his first big top as a boy, Vargas' obsession was to have one of his own. After marking time as a Fuller Brush salesman and working for the Chicago zoo, in 1972 he bought a small circus that had no tent -a failing he corrected a year later. Says he: "I was starting from virtually nothing, but I knew what I wanted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AMERICAN SCENE: The Circus: Escaping into the Past | 5/24/1976 | See Source »

Purportedly an anthropological exhibit, this is really a zoo. The assorted and rather unsorted tribesmen parade impressively among the objects of their daily life; strange, colorful, and unexplained. An exhibit likely to leave the average Caucasian fascinated, but with only a facile understanding of these other worlds...

Author: By Eleni Constantine, | Title: Galleries | 5/20/1976 | See Source »

...traveled almost halfway around the world to visit San Francisco, and while he had a blast (see PEOPLE), he was disappointed to find that the city's legendary cable cars were out of service. The buses and trolleys were not running either. All three city museums, the zoo, the municipal swimming pools and golf courses were closed. The King could not even meet Mayor George Moscone, who had been holed up in his office in city hall for two weeks-refusing to cross the picket lines that ringed the building...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CITIES: You Can't Heat City Hall | 4/26/1976 | See Source »

...want to westernize this country as a secular, democratic state," Jumblatt told TIME Correspondent Wilton Wynn. "We can no longer be segregated as Druzes or Sunni Moslems or Maronites. This system makes this country look like a zoo full of different kinds of animals. It's really undignified to be part...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MIDDLE EAST: Violent Week: The Politics of Death | 4/12/1976 | See Source »

...What do you visit when you go to the zoo...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Horse Feathers | 3/23/1976 | See Source »

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