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Around lambing time last spring, persistent reports drifted into Washington of huge piles of dead eagles in Wyoming. The stories were discounted at first. There are only about 2,000 or so bald eagles left in the U.S. outside of Alaska, and an estimated 8,000 to 10,000 golden eagles. As an endangered species, they are protected by strict federal laws from hunters, including ranchers, who hold to the largely disproved conviction that eagles are responsible for the mass slaughter of lambs...
Winter and summer, 4-H programs now take place in housing projects instead of grange halls. They focus livestock study on guppies and puppies, horticulture on window boxes and seeding bald lawns. Rather than driving tractors, youngsters learn to select, finance and insure used cars. Particularly for poor children, the projects teach what often amount to survival skills. Sewing sessions emphasize patterns that do not require sewing machines; in cooking, recipes feature low-cost staples like powdered milk and eggs. Several Indianapolis clubs have collaborated on programs to eradicate rats...
...curious thing is that, as the show in Pasadena makes clear, Judd's work is a good deal less cold and unenjoyable than its philosophy suggests. His use of materials is instinctively exquisite. A piece like Untitled, 1970 (see color page) seems bald at first-a run of identical flat sheets of galvanized iron, each 5 ft. by 4 ft., along the gallery wall. Then you notice the silvery flakes and washes caused by the galvanizing bath, rising through the darker metal and catching the light like mica, and that sense of program and frigidity goes. Says Judd: "There...
...visualized myself as a world-famous author of 70 with a mane of wavy white hair. Today I am practically bald." This balding, world-famous author. Vladimir Nabokov, celebrated his 72nd birthday in Switzerland last week by working on a new novel that may be called Transparent Things. The new work, he explained to the New York Times, is being composed on his usual "scrambled index cards, which I gradually fill in and sort out, using up in the process more pencil sharpeners than pencils." Nabokov described his success at beating the biblical quota of 70 years as "a feat...
...auto-parts company, Midas-International used to be a remarkable place to work. At its Chicago headquarters, Bach chamber music wafted from hidden loudspeakers, while Technicolor-plumed finches twittered in a giant cage. The boss, bumper-bald Gordon Sherman, 43, was in the office round the clock some days-and other days scarcely at all. A man of intense energy and occasional brilliance, he often worked at home, where he also liked to tend his orchids and hummingbirds or tootle his oboe and English horn. Occasionally he held executive meetings at a zoo, or in the office by candlelight...