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...American people. After last week's disaster, he noted that in many sports arenas, when they play the national anthem, among the images flashed on the big screens is that of the shuttle. "It's one of our most common national symbols now," he said. "Right after the bald eagle." Along with its predecessors, stretching back to the first Redstone rockets, it remains even now a symbol of America's common bond as a nation, in times of both triumph and tragedy...
Until last week, the service had hedged its bets on the condors' survival, taking the position that only three of the bald, beady-eyed carrion eaters should be brought in from the cold. But officials had become increasingly worried about the giant birds, which have been the object of an intensive six- year, $6 million preservation program. Since the fall of 1984, six of the known wild condors have been lost. One died from eating a lead slug in a carcass that was left behind by hunters. The others, which may also have succumbed to lead poisoning, have simply disappeared...
...Starker Leopold and Raymond F. Dasmann (University of California; 144 pages; $29.95). A different breed of actors, seldom seen on Rodeo Drive, populates this sumptuous bargain of a book. San Joaquin kit foxes, yellow- bellied marmots, California bighorn sheep and mountain lions patrol the high mountains and hidden valleys; bald eagles and hawks, herons and condors find their lonesome rookeries. Some of Tupper Ansel Blake's photographs--a grove of bishop pines at Point Reyes, the promontories of Santa Cruz Island fading into the mist--evoke Japanese prints. All eloquently plead the book's cause: save the wilderness...
...while sitting in my room with a friend and kidding him about some minor thing or another, he rejoined with a line so cutting that I feared I would lose hair just from hearing it. "At least I'm not going bald," he declared. My body convulsed...
...along I saw these and many other precautions as part of a losing battle. "My grandfather was bald," I figured. "So shall I be bald." I tried to console myself with visions of great bald men from history: Dwight Eisenhower, Winston Churchill, Benjamin Franklin, John Quincy Adams, Alan Brinkley. But to no avail. I was just not in their league. I would just be bald. Old and bald...