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...sports photography something of a sport itself. So it may be a spirit of fraternity that lends dash to his portrait gallery of athletes in Neil Leifer's Sports Stars (Doubleday; 256 pages; $35). The longtime photographer for SPORTS ILLUSTRATED and TIME does justice both to basketball's Nate Archibald airborne and to baseball's Casey Stengel in repose. He gets deep inside the tangles of the football field. And when he photographs Mary Lou Retton, he catches her in mid-bounce, all flags flying. Athletics were always like this, but before Leifer, athletic photojournalism...
...increasing role of political action committee money in American politics "poses a serious threat to the whole political system," former Professor of Law Archibald Con '34 told a group of about 25 Democratic Club members last night...
...nature reserves, covering 60,000 sq. mi., have been established. The government is taking a strong-arm approach to conservation: two fishermen were jailed recently for killing three endangered river dolphins, and two factory workers were fined for shooting one of China's twelve known ibis. Says Archibald, "I'm so impressed by what the Chinese have done. Before 1979 they didn't even know where the birds were...
...Archibald's attentions are now focused solely on the newest arrivals to Baraboo, and if anybody can ignite their ardor, he can. As a kind of Don Juan of the Audubon set, he won fame in 1978 for tempting a female whooping crane to ovulate by imitating the elaborate courtship dances of the male. His installation has housed representatives of all 15 species of crane and has successfully overseen the hatching of rare chicks since...
Though much remains to be learned about the black-neck's mating habits, Archibald does not anticipate the need for a repeat performance of his avian minuets. "We have all the therapy we need to get the cranes turned on," he says. Still, Archibald has developed something of a crush on one of the black- necks. "Lan-lan is such a sweetie," he says. "When I first met her, she came over and started preening and chirping. It was as if we were old friends...