Word: birding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Since her husband left for Viet Nam in March, Lynda Bird Robb has filled her days writing for McCall's, visiting Houston's Astro-World, playgoing in New York and gallery-hopping in Washington. This month she nipped off to Newport for a weekend of yachting with Socialite Topsy Taylor and other friends. But such activity for Mrs. Robb, who expects her first child in October, will come to a screeching halt. So says L.B.J. By paternal/presidential command, Lynda has been told she must stop traveling in September...
...Whiskered Bulbul, a crested Asian visitor freed from a rare-bird farm by a hurricane ten years ago, has begun to multiply. To the alarm of local growers, it has a marked preference for sweet, ripe fruit...
While Government and industry groped for ways to alleviate America's aerial arteriosclerosis, the traffic jam in the skies shifted from acute to chronic. The glut that has all but congealed the New York City metropolitan area's "Bird Cage"-Kennedy, La Guardia and Newark airports-now spreads confusion across the country and abroad, shredding connecting schedules in Los Angeles and squeezing service in Miami. Fortnight ago, "Black Friday" choked the Golden Triangle between New York City, Chicago and Washington with 2,079 delays. Black Friday now is every day. The situation cannot possibly get better before...
...member of Lady Bird Johnson's committee to beautify the capital, and Interior Secretary Stewart Udall's man on the spot to improve the Mall, Owings also rides herd on the committee to redesign Pennsylvania Avenue from the White House to the Capitol ? Washington's "grand axis" in Pierre L'Enfant's original scheme. Appointed to the committee by John F. Kennedy in 1962, the architect has moved his bulldozer capabilities into high gear, taking every available scrap of power "on the theory that if I was not supposed to have it, someone would tell me." President Johnson helped...
...bronze totems, cast in molds made from found objects, that brood like so many legendary rocs amid the gardens of the Maeght Foundation. One of his most recent sculptures is the massive marble Moonbird, who, in Miró's language, is meant to suggest not only moon and bird but also woman. Moonbird summons up half-forgotten racial memories of fertility-cult objects, altars, Astarte and menhirs. In so doing it suggests the deeper roots of Joan Miró's art. Through dream symbols and childish cartoons, through the very innocence of his spontaneous line, he poetically evokes...