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- PEOPLE, Page 66Monkey Do, Charlie Do
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- By Howard G. Chua-Eoan/Reported by Jeannie Park
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- Only mad dogs and Englishmen, it is said, go out in the
- noonday sun. But when the Englishman is the PRINCE OF WALES,
- there are likely to be gibbons, gawkers and scholars as well. At
- an exhibition of endangered species in Florida, Charles proved
- that he could be . . . well, a monkey's uncle. After being
- introduced to a white-headed gibbon, the Prince proceeded to
- mimic the little fellow. He also rather avuncularly bottle-fed
- a baby chimpanzee. Humans, too, found him funny. In Washington
- Charles got laughs while speaking to veterans of the
- British-funded Marshall scholarship program. The curious thing,
- he confessed, was that 234 (out of some 850) former scholars
- did not stay in touch. "Have they vanished from the face of the
- earth?" asked Charles. "Did they drop out, and are now rearing
- goats in Georgia? Perhaps they were picked up by a UFO, and are
- now being exploited by alien intelligence. In that case, it
- merely confirms the advantages of a British education." Mars to
- Charles . . .
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