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...four practice tennis courts, a stable with eight horses, a gym, a soccer field and two heated swimming pools. For indoor fun there are two television rooms, a cinema and even a discotheque. Next year the hotel will have a skating rink, a golf course and a small zoo. Knowing that all play and no work makes Jacques un enfant terrible, Fischler also included a library, a photo lab and four crafts workshops in his blueprints. At an additional cost the hotel also provides lessons in four languages and other tutoring...
Like many others, the Children's Zoo in Des Moines has had a serious vandalism problem. There is no money to hire a night watchman, and trespassers have broken in to cut off a cougar's ear, steal a trained hawk and release penned deer. Director Robert Elgin finally worked out an ingenious way to police the grounds at no cost: let Becky do it. Becky is a 180-lb. lioness...
Hsing-Hsing and Ling-Ling, those cuddly pandas from Red China, are so happy in their new digs at the National Zoo in Washington, D.C., that they have taken to standing on their heads and wiggling their rumps in an apparent gesture of good will. From Peking, however, came ominous reports that Milton and Matilda, the musk oxen that President Nixon presented to the Chinese, were not on exhibit at the Peking Zoo because they were suffering from postnasal drip and a skin condition that was causing them to shed their hair...
...Culture shock" and the rigors of travel are the diagnoses offered by Dr. Theodore Reed, the National Zoo director who escorted the shaggy oxen to Peking. Mindful of the possible international repercussions, Reed explains that the runny noses and such were partly a temporary reaction to "hearing Chinese spoken instead of English, seeing new faces, new uniforms, new surroundings and eating Chinese hay and grain. Hoof stock don't travel as well as, say, pandas." Sure enough, late last week word came from Peking that Milton and Matilda had recovered. Reed attributes the cure to his recommended treatment...
...African griffon that escaped from the National Zoo, the male vulture has eluded all attempts of capture. Though zoo officials insist that his tastes run to large dead rats and not small live children, wary citizens are not amused. The real worry is over the country's image. So far, the big bird has confined his flight pattern to the northwest section of the city where he often perches atop the National Cathedral like a gargoyle. Imagine the photographs in every newspaper in the world if he settled down to brood atop the Capitol dome or on the White...