Word: bird
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...knows for sure how much of the park's wildlife-unlike that found in any other spot in North America-has already been lost. Park Superintendent Roger Allin estimates that the wading-bird population, which includes herons, egrets, storks, ibis and spoonbills, has dropped from 1,500,000 in the '30s to perhaps 35,000 now. Alligators and other reptiles have probably suffered a similar decline. "It's a long-term thing," says a ranger. "Over the past years, it's just gotten awful still out there...
...guest recently and suggested that Johnny run against Bobby for the Senate in 1970. There was much good-natured kidding, and the next night Carson was still playing the gag. "I have no intention of running for public office," he said. "As I was telling my wife Joanne Bird...
Monday, May 15 TOWN MEETING OF THE WORLD (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). "The Attitudes of the World's Youth Toward World Problems," a trans atlantic panel discussion via Early Bird satellite between a group of students from English universities on one hand and California Governor Ronald Reagan and New York Senator Robert Kennedy on the other. Charles Collingwood directs the give-and-take from London...
...last Gemulah sings the song of Grofith, a mythical bird who dies with the last note. She dies too, along with her mysterious auditor. It is Agnon's anguished challenge to his own quest: the past is alien, and unrecoverable, and he who seeks it is destined to live in the limbo between the sunset and the dawn...
...instantaneous communication, the world is becoming smaller as jets become faster. Telstar and Early Bird make it possible for Americans and Japanese and Russians, without even leaving their homes, to watch a soccer game in London while it is being played. Moving information at the speed of light has reversed the trend toward expansion of the world, and McLuhan suggests that the world will continue to shrink until we all live in a village again, a single, global village...