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Television and its instant replay have little reverence for those hulking black buzzard judges of the basepaths. Two egregious cases in point are two plays at the plate in the first games of the 1970 and 1973 Series. In 1970 Ken Burkhardt called the Reds' Bernie Carbo out when, as an instant replay showed, Baltimore catcher Elrod Hendricks missed the tag and Carbo the plate...
...Landing Zone Buzzard, when Company M arrived from Columbus, Ohio, the most energetic activity was the application of Coppertone. "It's hard to get decent Marines," complained Corporal Gary Gambill, 26, an exporter for Ashland Chemical. "Thirteen quit the company last month, and only five joined-and three of those have started paper work to get their discharges...
...began publishing monthly articles in major magazines detailing the success of the FBI against the most famous criminals of the day, with titles such as "Buzzard in Disguise," and "the Meanest Man I Ever Knew," to drive home the point that criminals were not admirable figures. He also began allowing magazine and book writers to enter the Bureau and produce highly favorable articles about himself and the enemies. He wrote introductions for books with titles such as Ten Thousand Public Enemies and Our FBI: An Inside Story...
...Sunning himself in a graveyard one afternoon, Sloane is taken in-in every sense-by Kath (Beryl Reid). She is a bloated harpy who will never need silicone or estrogen. Enter two gentlemen who provide complications and multiply laughter. Kath's father Dadda (Alan Webb) is a senescent buzzard; her brother Ed (Harry Andrews) is a lantern-jawed caricature of muscle-bound Christianity...
...post-Civil War Midwest, a twelve-year-old orphan named George (Edward Albert) runs away from his guardians. His life takes on a Huckleberry hue, and a series of encounters leads him to the beginning of maturity. His first is with Dirty Jim (Henry Hull), an unregenerate old buzzard who prattles of "a fool killer," who poleaxes wrongdoers as they sleep. The figure haunts George's dreams until he actually finds him in the person of another fugitive: Milo Bogardus (Anthony Perkins...