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...News building, there was no doubt about the seriousness of the matter: a guard had been posted at the door of Annenberg's cavernous office "to see that I removed nothing but my own papers." "It was charged," said Annenberg, "that there was some sort of monkey business in my department that I should have known about." The "monkey business" apparently concerned kickbacks to the News's circulation men from dealers who wanted early delivery of the paper. (Three months ago an assistant in the News's circulation department resigned amidst a flurry of such talk.) Said...
...brief straightaways at full throttle, shifting down and braking for the turns, shifting up to speed again, spinning and sliding through S-curve and hairpin, drivers lost no time making work for their mechs. And even the best of them ran into the kind of trouble no grease monkey can cure. Sweeping into a wide, unbanked turn, Texan Bob Said squinted over the hood of his three-liter Ferrari and saw danger. In the middle of the track, a tiny Renault had cartwheeled onto its back. Said drifted wide to miss it. Suddenly, he was bearing down on a stretcher...
Consulting the planets, Astrologer Mahant Raghvir Dass, high priest of Delhi's Hanuman (Monkey God) temple, made a direful prediction: "The 13 months after May 5, 1955, will be inauspicious for marriages." The news had Delhi state in a marital dither last week. Unmarried thousands hurried to get hitched before the full moon in the sign of Vrischika...
Centuries of borrowing gave Japan a reputation as a nation of agile mimics; Japanese even coined an ugly word for themselves-sarumane (monkey-imitators)-to use in candid introspective moments. But at the core there was a quality distinctly Japanese, that took or rejected, or sometimes transformed, everything foreign, from Confucius' rules of behavior to a Leica lens...
...Cover) "Do you know the story of the centipede with gout?" asked Joe Dodge. "Well, this poor centipede limped painfully for miles to consult the philosopher of the jungle, the monkey. After taking thought, the philosopher gave his solution: 'If you became a mouse and had only four legs, you would be 25 times better off.' The centipede said: 'That's a good idea. How do I get to be a mouse?' The monkey shook his head. 'I can't tell you that.' he said. 'I only make policy...