Word: ling
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...Ching Ling Foo, "Court Conjurer to the Empress of China," wowed Western audiences when he toured the U.S. at the turn of the century. Now American Magician Mark Wilson, whose thaumaturgical fame dates from his days as star of TV's The Magic Land of Alla Kazam in the '60s, is seeking to balance the trade in his trade by taking his bag of tricks to China. While visiting the People's Republic to arrange performances there next fall, Wilson conjured up big crowds with small, impromptu gigs in which he would make white penknives turn black...
...this is not an excerpt from the latest report on human sexual inadequacy by Masters and Johnson. It is the director of Washington's National Zoo, Theodore Reed, explaining why the capital's popular pair from Peking, the giant pandas Ling-Ling and Hsing-Hsing, have failed to produce offspring in three years of bumbling attempts...
Last week the zoo took matters into its own hands. Her bleating and scent marking tipped off officials that the female Ling-Ling was in heat, an event that lasts a scant five days each spring. So a team of 13, including Head Veterinarian Mitchell Bush and Anesthesiologist Michael Abramowitz of the Washington, D.C., Children's Hospital, gathered around the lady. Ling-Ling was anesthetized, then inseminated with approximately 3.2 cc of semen that had been collected from Hsing-Hsing last year and frozen. (Fresh semen had been collected from Hsing-Hsing shortly before the insemination, but the sperm...
...gestation period for pandas is about five months, and it will take almost 4½ months for the first signs of pregnancy to appear-a swelling of Ling-Ling's breasts as she gets ready to nurse. Thus far only the Chinese have successfully bred a panda by artificial means. But such human intervention is becoming increasingly prudent. In the past five years, earthquakes and the natural disappearance of their major food, the arrow bamboo, have killed at least a tenth of China's giant pandas. Today only about 1,000 remain in the wild...