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Murder in the Park. What everyone feared finally happened on the fugitive's sixth day of freedom. GOLDIE TURNS KILLER! screamed the Daily Express. Worse still, the killer had eaten the victim. It was a Muscovy duck that had been swimming innocently in a nearby pond as Goldie-the Regent's Park Zoo's proud golden eagle-yielded to the demands of an angry appetite...
...very sorry for the duck," said a zoo spokesman, "but it is rather heartening for us to see Goldie get a good square meal." Goldie had in fact made an earlier stab at food in the form of Dusty, a Cairn terrier ambling with his mistress through the park, but Dusty fought the eagle to a draw. A snow goose would have fared less well had not spectators driven Goldie...
...mountain that do not produce enough food for the soaring population. Like Peru's Belaunde, Chile's new President Eduardo Frei offers a vast reform program, including a landmark partnership with three U.S. companies to double copper production by 1970. Frei has suffered from a hostile lame-duck Congress in which his Christian Democrats controlled only 33 of 192 seats. "Chile," he says, "cannot wait indefinitely." And this week he went into crucial congressional elections, hoping for a more cooperative legislature...
...young, Professor Fausto Bongioanni declared: "The comics prepare a child for life. Let us accept the facts; life is not sweet." "I have found a moral decline in Walt Disney's comics," announced Professor Giovanni Bertin. "The positive character Mickey Mouse has been replaced by the negative Donald Duck. The emergence of an evil Donald Duck is a bad omen for American mores...
...over the U.S., overweight men and women are indulging in a new diet craze: drink all the martinis and whisky you want, stow away marbled steaks and roast duck, never mind the fats. Forget calorie counting, but avoid sugar and starchy foods as though they were poison. Adherents of the fad take as their battle cry the title of a paperback booklet, The Drinking Man's Diet (Cameron & Co.; $1). The book's contents are a cocktail of wishful thinking, a jigger of nonsense and a dash of sound advice...