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...soldiers now left in Flagstaff House, residence of the former President, are, I am told, eating their way through his private zoo," reported a columnist in West Africa magazine last month. Full details were hard to come by, but the report set correspondents and writers to speculation about what might be going on in the cages of Kwame Nkrumah's private zoo...
Death & the Elephant. Based on a 19th century lottery to boost attendance at the Rio zoo, the animal game is no ordinary numbers racket. It starts off with 25 animals, each of which is assigned four consecutive numbers (from 01-04 for the ostrich to 97-00 for the cow). Odds for a straight animal bet are 20 to 1, but few bettors stop there. They can get 70 to 1 for guessing the last two figures of the winning number, 700 to 1 for the last three figures, 6,000 to 1 for getting all four figures right. They...
...with Alinsky, at least ten leading financial contributors to one of the city's foremost Episcopal parishes refused to sign any more pledge checks; one millionaire eliminated a fat bequest to the parish from his will. Undeterred, Alinsky publicly described the city's Negro area as a "zoo," got embroiled in an acrimonious argy-bargy with Board of Education President Homer Wadsworth, who declared: "Alinsky has the smell of the '30s about him." Retorted Alinsky: "We still have the smell of despair and oppression. Mr. Wadsworth smells nice. It's the smell of bankers and cologne...
...long day's courtship moves from the beach to an impromptu airplane excursion to the Copenhagen zoo, then home and bed, but not before the would-be seducer confides: "Every time you reach a port, you think you'll find what you want. By the time you leave a place, you're sick of it." Lindgren's camera dotes on closeups, catching every glimmer of doubt, every stab of loneliness, until the whole film tingles with a heady sense of discovery. Finally, it sees through the girl's eyes that the hot-blooded mariner...
Doctor Martin Milner subdues the fugitive Sunshine's snarls with a spray-can full of whipped cream, and before long a spacious new zoo has been flung...