Word: bird
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...judges picked San Antonio from among 233 towns and cities that entered the contest, half again as many as entered last year-an increase due, in part, to Lady Bird's beautification program. Basis for the judging were scrapbooks submitted by the individual cities, and San Antonio's was certainly Texas-size: it came in two volumes weighing 80 lbs., and cost $18 just to ship by air to Washington...
Getting the Bird...
...Your statement that Michael Caine's latest bird, Camilla Sparv [Feb. 3], is a rura avis is in need of amplification. Sparv is the Swedish word for the ubiquitous sparrow, if anything an avis communis...
...CHILDREN'S FILM FESTIVAL (CBS, 4-5 p.m.). The Blind Bird, produced in Russia, tells of a boy's attempts to restore the sight of his pet pelican...
Despite the fact that the Administration at year's end named Boeing and General Electric as the winners of the competition to build the U.S.'s first supersonic jet transport, the big bird has remained in a stall. In a bind over budget and congressional problems, President Johnson held back on funds that Boeing and G.E. need to make prototypes. Last week, however, the Administration hit on a new maneuver to start the SST toward...