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Among many other items of interest in this critical time, the New York Times one day last week carried a story headlined GEESE ARE FOUND IN GROUNDED STATE. It seemed that a party of naturalists had tracked to Bylot Island in the upper reaches of Baffin Bay the Greater Snow Goose, who wanted at that point to be let alone. His zoological middle name is hyperborea, ("from beyond the north wind"), and the reason he wants to get behind the north wind once a year is that then he loses all his feathers at once. It takes him two weeks...
...From Bylot Island to Washington was but a flap as the Greater Snow Goose, when not molting, flies. There the U.S. Department of State appeared to be grounded between flying seasons. What molted the State Department was a boreal wind from France, where EDC was being plucked. What next? The State Department didn't know. It had based its hopes so thoroughly on EDC that it had hardly allowed itself to think of a course to follow if EDC should fail. There had been an assumption that EDC might be replaced by a U.S. policy of rearming West Germany...
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