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...even worse infestation of birds bedevils Scotland Neck, N.C. (pop. 2,869). There, perhaps 20 million blackbirds are jammed into 60 to 85 acres of pine and hardwood trees. Branches have broken under the weight of the birds, and the accumulated carpet of guano in some sections of the woods is a foot thick. No one can figure out why the birds chose this particular town or how to drive the intruders away. One man wrote the mayor with a gruesome plan for overkill: "You mix coarse meal with plaster of paris and feed it to the birds...
...sleepless nine-hour flight to Liberia, followed by a frenetic twelve-hour day of state activities, she told a news conference: "Being First Lady is the hardest unpaid job in the world." The eager, enthusiastic Liberians helped prove her point. She was greeted by Tolbert in a red-carpet ceremony complete with the ruffles and flourishes and 19-gun salute usually reserved for a head of government. Dressed in red, white and blue, she kept solemn step with the military tattoo as she reviewed the Liberian honor guard. Following the ceremony, she rode at Tolbert's side...
WILLY BRANDT'S two-day visit with President Nixon last week almost began on the wrong foot. A soldier narrowly escaped injury when the door of the presidential helicopter was lowered on him as he smoothed the red carpet for the West German Chancellor's arrival. The talks, one of a series with allied leaders before Nixon's trips to Peking and Moscow, produced the now-familiar pomp and reassuring communiqués, but were in fact of special significance. In pursuit of his Ostpolitik, Brandt has become the Western leader most familiar with the opportunities...
Gift Dynamite. The day after McGurk's was demolished, a six-story carpet and linoleum factory in East Belfast went up in flames. The fire, started by bombs set by two armed raiders, caused $2.5 million in damage and cost 600 people their jobs...
Motorized CheckOut. T he more spectacular new dolls, however, are those that perform grown-up tasks. Bizzie Lizzie pushes a carpet sweeper, dusts and irons. Busy Becky the Handi Helper, programmed in much the same way, comes with twelve housekeeping accessories. Shoppin' Sheryl pushes a shopping cart, reaches out with a magnetized "Magic Hand" to pluck items off shelves, then pays at what is labeled a Motorized CheckOut Counter after the sale is rung up on a Ringing Cash Register. Surely an Overdrawn Bank Account is in the works somewhere...