Word: birde
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...booming Little Boy Blue Nixon for the U.S. presidency? I can see no resemblance between the once tear-stained face of Nixon and the gold-plated eagle that graces your Oct. 10 cover; in fact, the old bird looks very much out of place...
...Remember?" In addition to spreading his influence beyond the Treasury into other departments, Humphrey has-to the surprise of many of his friends-become a considerable politician. When Defense Secretary Wilson made his widely criticized "bird-dog" remark during the congressional election campaign of 1954, it was Humphrey who took charge of strategy on minimizing the damage. George Humphrey, it has been noted in Washington, is quite nimble at keeping his foot out of his mouth...
...bird islands off the coast of Peru are more than a fabulous sight to tourists. The birds are among Peru's chief assets: last year they produced fertilizer (guano) worth more than $30 million. Their value is on the increase because the Peruvian government's Guano Administration Co. has recently encouraged the birds to colonize the mainland. According to Ornithologist Robert Cushman Murphy of New York's American Museum of Natural History, the company's management of the birds is one of the world's greatest examples of practical conservation...
About eight years ago, the company decided that lack of food is not the factor that limits guano bird population. The cold Pacific off Peru is incredibly rich in life; besides such large items as tuna and whale, it contains about 25 million tons of anchovetas, the six-inch fish that is the favorite food of the birds. The company decided that the chief reason why the birds did not increase to the limit of their abundant food supply was that their small islands were overcrowded and not in the right places for harvesting fish efficiently. The birds cannot normally...
Brownie Reid has other troubles besides the Early Bird. In his eagerness to sweep out the cobwebs from the paper (TIME, April 18), he has also swept out much of the paper's oldtime esprit de corps. "In the past year," said one Trib veteran, "there has been complete unrest in the city room." The Trib has been losing many of its top staffers and promising younger newsmen. City Editor Fendall Yerxa quit, to be replaced (TIME, May 30) by hard-boiled Luke Carroll, onetime Trib Chicago correspondent. Close to a dozen other staffers, including John...