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...When the zoo opened recently, cages seemed necessary after all-for the children. A first-day mob of more than 15,000 of them, fresh out of school and impatient after long delays at the gates, tore the place apart. They smashed hatching quail eggs, hurled rocks at the ducks, dropped baby turtles on their backs, pounded away on the shell of the Aldabra tortoise. A Nubian goat bleated in agony as it was pulled from both ends. The baby elephant ran off in terror. A peacock, its tail feathers sore after having been yanked for hours, bit a four...
...simple idea behind the design of contemporary children's zoos is that the youngsters will love the animals more if they are given a chance to touch them. So it was for the new children's zoo at Seattle's Woodland Park. Says the zoo's architect, Fred Bassetti: "We wanted the kids to play tug of war with the monkeys, pet the rabbits, hug the lambs, be chased by the geese-in a word, to participate rather than just look." Hence a minimum of cages and fences...
...worst kind of destruction I've seen," said Zoo Keeper John Nichols. "It'll be too bad," added another attendant, "if we get a mean elephant out of this-she certainly isn't going to get any smaller." Yet, despite the opening-day mayhem, Zoo Director Frank Vincenzi is determined to make the animals available to children. "There will be no fences," he said. "That would ruin what we're trying to make here...
...concrete apartment houses in Geneva ("It leaked, but we loved it"), became fascinated with egg-shaped structures while studying architecture in London, where he came in contact with the stability studies of Structural Engineer Niels Lisborg. Häusermann's first egg-shaped project was for a zoo snake house, which, though never built, won him top architectural grades. In 1960, he actually built his first egg house for his parents. "Father thought the inside might be too small," he recalls, "so we simply squashed the iron mesh frame down...
...this end, they plant bombs all over town, then phone anonymous tips to Scotland Yard. The bobbies bob up in the lion house at the zoo, the Albert Memorial. At one point, they even invade a ladies' loo. By the time a call comes to defuse a bomb in the Tower, the Yard's guard is down, and the boys, disguised as demolition experts, easily lift the loot. Caught and incarcerated in the Tower, at film's end the culprits are conspiring to commit more sibling revelry-an escape that will make their big crime seem small...