Word: birde
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...nearness of death seems to have had a therapeutic effect on Prisoner Stroud, then 30. Condemned to spend the rest of his life in prison, he made his solitary-confinement cell into a laboratory and himself into a major authority on bird diseases. His story, a wildly improbable triumph of will and intelligence, is compellingly told by Author Gaddis, a California social worker...
Stroud found a nest of newborn sparrows in a prison yard, took them to his lonely cell. The experience of taking care of the birds moved him, and he decided he would like to raise canaries. He painstakingly built a cage out of a soap box, using a razor blade and pieces of bottle glass as tools. Although he had gone to school only as far as the third grade, he now absorbed all that prison libraries could teach him about chemistry, biology, ornithology. Displaying heroic patience, he carried out thousands of experiments with homemade apparatus, found remedies for major...
...svelte 37, Senate Majority Leader Lyndon B. Johnson, 47, thriving on a low-caloric diet to speed his recovery from his heart attack of early July, waved a happy farewell to congressional cares at Washington's National Airport. Then he and his wife Lady Bird flew away home to Texas, where Johnson will loll around a few months in home-town Johnson City...
What made Happy win? A voter from the Upper Red Bird district, in Combs's own Clay County, explained it. "We didn't vote against Bert Combs," he said. "We just voted for Happy Chandler because we fell in love with his winsome personality...
Outgoing Premier Ali took his dismissal lightly. Gathering together his collection of sporting rifles in the palatial official residence, he joked: "Don't worry, I'm not going to start a revolution." As Ali explained it: "For 27 months I have been an overworked bird in a gilded cage, and I am glad to be out of it. Anyway, Chaudhri is a brainier fellow than I and may not find the premiership as tough going as I did." He hopes to resume his old job as ambassador to Washington...