Word: birde
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Washington Dateline. That settled, Nelson Rockefeller moved on to tackle a problem of overriding interest in presidential politics: New Hampshire's early-bird primary, to be held March 8, which may make or break Rocky's candidacy. Rockefeller telephoned Senator Styles Bridges, New Hampshire's most powerful Republican. "Hiya, fella," said Rocky on the phone. "You know, one of the hardest things about not being in Washington is that you miss seeing your friends." Even Styles Bridges, as case-hardened a cynic as exists in Washington politics, boggled a bit. He and Nelson Rockefeller had never been...
...magic in his bones. Starlings? There's a way to get rid of them. Step a little closer and we'll talk terms. Mount Vernon stepped a little closer, saw the shimmering words on the stranger's golden tie pin. He was, by self-proclamation, THE BIRD...
Ripe for Laughs. In a red plaid sports cap and corduroy trousers full of holes, the bird man was soon out on Commonwealth Avenue collecting crowds in skeptic ranks. In his hands he carried what looked like two thin aluminum cricket bats. Around his neck was a lanyard from which dangled a long aluminum tube. The trees were ripe with starlings; Mount Vernon was ripe for a laugh...
Walking fast, the bird man moved through the neighborhood, in and out of driveways and over lawns, flapping the aluminum cricket bats together, not looking where he was going, but staring piercingly into the trees. The starlings stared back. The bird man kept the bats banging, every so often used one to stroke the tube hanging from his neck...
...Atlantic range from Cape Canaveral. The third successful Atlas shot in four weeks, the missile achieved "most of its objectives," helped offset the string of five failures that had put the nation's primary ICBM weeks behind schedule. Now, Air Force men say they hope to make the bird operational next month...