Word: birding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...from a commercial airliner at El Toro Marine Air Station, Calif., the major's first words were, "I can hardly wait to see that baby of mine." The major was Charles Robb, just returned from a 13-month tour in Viet Nam and eager to join Wife Lynda Bird and six-month-old Lucinda Desha, whom he had never seen. Wearing an undecorated khaki uniform, Robb agreeably deflected newsmen's questions about his plans. "I've been ducking ambushes in Viet Nam for 13 months," he said, "and now you have to ambush me here." The surprise...
...plane is the slower patrol aircraft that measures radar capabilities and eavesdrops obliquely on enemy radio communications from a distance. The plodding, prop-driven EC-121 shot down by North Korean MIGs last week is a military version of the Super Constellation airliner. The EC-121 is an ungainly bird, its basically graceful lines awkwardly broken by wartlike plastic radar domes above and below the fuselage. Four piston engines give it a cruising speed of only 300 m.p.h., but it has immense range. It can fly 6,500 miles, staying aloft for more than 20 hours-which enables...
...runners-up: Rose Kennedy, Mamie Eisenhower, Lady Bird Johnson...
...Airman First Class, Patrick Nugent landed in Austin, Texas, to an enthusiastic greeting from Wife Luci and about 100 friends and relatives, including Lyndon Baines Johnson. "Marvelous, marvelous, marvelous," the proud father-in-law repeated, and occasionally prompted Grandson Lyn, almost 2, into a snappy salute. Said Lynda Bird: "I'm just so glad we have one of our boys home." Her boy, Marine Major Charles Robb, is due back late this month...
...Fish and Wildlife." The rest of that list, as announced last week, amounts to a catalogue of the 20th century's assault on wilderness life in the U.S. Some of the animals named may eventually drop off the list and disappear forever. A few, like Banko's bird, are species that have reappeared from apparent oblivion. A sampling...