Word: bucked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ROUNDERS (ABC, 8:30-9 p.m.). The premiere of a modern horselaugh opera recounting the adventures of two cowboys, their wheeler-dealer ranch boss and a horse called "Old Fooler," who would rather sit than buck. Chill Wills stars as the rancher, with Ron Hayes and Patrick Wayne as the cowpokes. Old Fooler up stages them all in "A Horse for Jim Ed Love...
...Southeast Asian swamplands, it has long been observed that thousands of fireflies flash together, lighting up trees with the regularity of neon signs. This synchronous flashing has never been adequately explained. North American fireflies generally light individually or sometimes in uncoordinated group flashing. Writing in Nature, Zoologist John Buck and his wife believe that the Asian male fireflies' synchronous flashing is actually a photic call that lures females to the trees for mass mating. Because the Asian undergrowth is so dense, the male insects use rhythmic beaconing in order to shine through and be seen by the females...
...Asian lightning bugs maintain their coordinated flashing is "one of the great mysteries of physiology," says Dr. Buck. Once this is fathomed, however, it may lead researchers toward a better understanding of nervous-system mechanisms that allow humans to act in perfect unison...
...PETER BUCK FELLER...
...University Professor, Reischauer will not be tied to any department, and will be free to teach and do research anywhere in the University. The Board of Overseers voted this Spring to offer him the position. The six other University professors are Paul A. Freund, constitutional lawyer; Paul H. Buck, former provost and American historian; Edward M. Purcell, Nobel laureate in physics; Edward S. Mason, economist; John F. Enders, Nobel laureate in medicine and physiology; and Merle Fainsod, an authority on Russian government and Director of the University Library...