Her fellow San Franciscan Fraser is a long-haired, 24-year-old ex-baseball player with rugged, modelish looks.

The police thwarted the would-be assassin.

Until recently, the gorilla had received a bad press, usually depicted as a fearsomely powerful and aggressive beast. From the time of its discovery by the American medical missionary Thomas Savage, as recently as 1847, the gorilla had been misrepresented. The skull that Savage examined confirmed ancient reports from the fifth century, when the Carthaginians sailed along the west coast of Africa and killed the ‘hairy people – the gorillae’.

Also, in alleging that nonmarket parameters are not measurable, in some sense, proponents of the argument from horse and rabbit stew appear to forget that ...