Word: coloring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...animals almost as if they were chemical compounds. Professor Tinbergen tells how he bothered a herring gull horribly by putting a red wooden egg in her nest. The shape and size of the egg were correct; they tended to release the gull's incubating reaction. But the red color touched off an attack reaction. The poor confused mother fought an exhausting battle between conflicting drives, until the "sitting drive" dominated long enough to allow her to sit down. She could feel the egg's tender shape beneath her, but could not see its color. So she finally settled...
...Idaho's Senator Glen Taylor was found guilty in Birmingham last week of disorderly conduct, assault and battery, and interfering with an officer. Taylor's lawyers argued that it violated the Senator's constitutional rights to bar him from any door because of his color, indicated that the fight would be carried to the Supreme Court. Judge Oliver Hall fined the Senator $50, sentenced him to 180 days in jail, suspended the sentence, then grumped: "This is a publicity stunt and had it been left to me, I never would have tried the case...
...handouts, dressed up to become, once more, a magazine for scientific Americans. With a new editorial board, headed by Gerard Piel, former LIFE science editor, and backers who included Lessing J. Rosenwald and Bernard Baruch, Scientific American hoped to bring science into 100,000 armchairs. Inside the sleek, four-color cover of its May issue were well-illustrated articles on such topics as Vesalius, founder of modern anatomy; the Amazon River; the "dust cloud" theory of the formation of planetary systems. First press run: 100,000 copies, including 40,000 for subscribers...
...bloc Congressmen fought for U.S. cows as though the margarine-makers were going to throw them all into giant hamburger machines; they predicted balefully that herds would be so depleted that little babies would be denied milk. They cried that oleo was full of worms and that its natural color was tattletale grey. Oleo's partisans replied that butter had been found to contain "insects, hair, moth scales and something with a Latin name...
...From Madison Square Garden, the circus was presented in five three-hour telecasts. The Greatest Show on Earth turned out to be one of TV's greatest shows, with a smash Hooperating (67.2). There were a few missing ingredients (the color and smells), but the long-distance lens caught such unusual details as a close-up of Unus' one-fingered stand, the dazed expression on a midget bareback rider's face, an elephant's wink...