Word: avian
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...trail out of the theaters. The reason is not simply the cinematic perfection of the death scene. It is also caused by the fact that Bonnie and Clyde are what Warren Beatty calls "ordinary people," whose curiously appealing lower-middle-class normality emerges between crimes -Bonnie's perpetual avian bickering with Buck's wife, the Barrow brothers' spirited roughhouse chaff. They kill and rob banks; but they share the common concerns of common...
James McCormack, LL.D., board chairman and chief executive officer, Communications Satellite Corp. Like the forehanded avian who catches the worm, you are the Early Bird who catches the rewards of intercontinental communications to the benefit of all nations...
...grey-haired researcher continued: "Since at that time few scientists believed in the possibility of transmission of virus-caused avian tumors to any mammal, including man, I had worked for years without any special protection against the fowl-tumor virus, with my bare hands in contact with the blood and tumors of infected chickens and chick embryos almost daily. This could have amounted to a repeated inoculation with the virus, since there were usually cuts and scratches on my hands...
Since Dr. Davis developed cancer, other researchers have crossed the bird-mammal barrier and induced cancer in mice and monkeys with avian viruses. Dr. Davis may be the first identified human victim of a similar transfer. But it is not yet certain, because many tumor tissues look alike under the microscope. And Dr. Davis herself concedes: "Maybe it was just coincidence that I got this kind of cancer...
Died. Arthur Augustus Allen, 78, Cornell University ornithologist who in 50 years of bird watching discovered many principles of avian psychology (birds are shocked to see themselves in mirrors, sometimes suffer from inferiority complexes), was the first to raise the ruffed grouse in captivity, locate the nesting place of the bristle-thighed curlew, record successfully the call of the whooping crane; of a heart attack; in Ithaca...