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...years the earnest curators of New York's Bronx Zoo have busied themselves with the delicate problem of platypus family life. Platypus reproduction is a baffling business, for platypuses are not quite mammals. Their blood is warm and they have mammal-like fur, but they lay soft, reptile-type eggs about ¾ in. long. From the eggs hatch blind, hairless little "larvae" that nurse by licking milk from their mother's mammary pores. Only after several months do they frisk out of their burrow as furry platykittens...
MORRIS WATTENBERG The Bronx...
...scientific journals each month, plus following an endless flow of reports and pamphlets, Leonard is constantly packing his bag, catching a train or plane to go to the source of a particular story for interviews and firsthand observation. These trips may range from a short visit to The Bronx Zoo (to spy on the activities of a surly platypus) to a 600-m.p.h. night flight in a radar-guided F94 to tell the story of the jet interceptors guarding the Atlantic coast...
Drugs & Understanding. Bronx-born, California-trained Psychologist Hood, 40, saw the difference between the truly retarded and the salvageable brain-injured when he was hired to handle a class of Chinese "morons" in San Francisco. Most, he found, were not retarded at all, but their natural intelligence could not function normally because of their injuries. After he met Dr. Putnam (who has done as much as any man living to develop the use of drugs which now control epilepsy in two-thirds of its victims), Hood took over an abandoned mansion on West Adams Boulevard and started his special boarding...
...symbolize the system as well as Superintendent Bill Jansen, who has stood steadily, even stolidly at its helm since 1947. Like many of his students and many of his teachers, he is the son of an immigrant himself. His father, a Danish cabinetmaker from Kiel, settled in The Bronx, toiled diligently at his exacting trade (Jansen's Park Avenue apartment boasts a collection of intricately inlaid tables fitted by his father's hands), endured hard times and planned better lives for his children. Jansen, a big, strong boy. knew what he wanted to do soon after he entered...