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...wanting to be a zoo-keeper...
...cucumbers, bananas, peaches, cantaloupes and nectarines. At least two U.S. institutions, however, vowed to pay any price or bear any burden in order to get great portions of red meat for their highly prized charges. One was the Cleveland Browns football team; the other was Chicago's Brookfield Zoo...
...reptiles to the Audubon Society. The organization's leaders bravely accepted the gift, and plan to truck the alligators to refuges in other Southern states. In the bargain, Audubon officials also got some free advice from William Summerville, general curator of the Staten Island Zoo in New York City: "Keep their backs sprayed while they're in the truck so they don't dry out. Make sure they're all the same size so they don't eat each other, and keep them out of the sun." Oh yes, and don't look...
...even though his leg was still swollen and badly infected. But the worst was yet to come. The violent antiwar reaction in the U.S. that followed the Communist 1968 Tet offensive apparently convinced Hanoi that the war could be won by propaganda. A maximum effort was made at the Zoo to get prisoners to appear before various peace delegations and press conferences...
...guards told him that his leg had to be amputated. The wound was cleaned out, however, the iron clamp removed and the leg was finally on its way to healing-nearly 2½ years after it had been broken. In early February 1969, Kasler was returned to the Zoo, and got a roommate, Navy Commander Peter Schoeffel, who had been shot down in 1967. He had spent a total of 18 months in solitary confinement since his capture...