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Sirs: I came in late on this week's issue (TIME, April 26) which accounts for the delay in registering my Bronx cheer on your reporting of Fred Kaplan's "bridge feat...
...Chicago's Brookfield Zoo counted on the birth of 90 mammals, the hatching of an equal number of rare birds. Its latest swap brought two Central American quetzals, green-crested, scarlet-breasted "world's most beautiful bird," from New York's Bronx Zoo. Brookfield's starring attractions: 300 monkeys which clamber about sandstone cliffs, four giant eland from the Sudan, which may soon...
...years keepers at the Bronx Zoo worried because tropical flamingos, an ace attraction, lost the bright red of their plumage after a winter in captivity. For 40 years they had been fed a diet which included Norwegian shrimp. The war forced substitution of New Orleans shrimp. This spring the long-stemmed birds emerged from winter quarters ruddier than ever. Their complete diet: a mixture of chopped green 'peppers, cod liver oil, fresh New Orleans shrimp, grated raw carrots, dried Mexican flies, dog biscuit, rice and brewer's yeast...
Visiting Around. In a Bronx court...
...Bronx, N.Y., a grand jury indicted twelve youths for raping a 17-year-old girl in a crowded movie house. The leader of the hoodlums, Frank Califano, 17, terrorized the victim by twisting a handkerchief around her neck...