Word: comebacking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Last year I wrote to you concerning the near complete disappearance of our songbirds over the past three years. This fourth spring, still hoping I might have been mistaken or that the birds would have staged a comeback, however small, I watched again. I found nine robins and one pair of bluebirds, a total increase of about two or three. I saw six juncos, an increase of two or three, and seven white-crowned sparrows, an increase of five or six. There were ten pine siskins-down from 18 last year. I say those great conservationists-the U.S. Department...
...recruited him as a celebrity to bolster I.O.S.'s prestige. Now, said Wyndham White, Cornfeld has "receded into the position of a minority shareholder." Though Cornfeld is still I.O.S.'s largest single shareholder, with 15% of the voting power, he has made no immediate plans for a comeback...
...Braves, he hit 22 homers, knocked in 88 runs, batted .330 -and lost Rookie of the Year honors to the Phillies' Richie Allen, a .318 hitter. Last season, after a six-month bout with tuberculosis, he suffered through three shoulder separations and still managed a .342 average. The Comeback of the Year award, however, went to the Mets' Tommie Agee...
Seeking a Comeback. I.O.S. now needs two things: cash and the confidence of investors. Other groups, including rival foreign-based funds, have been dickering to gain control of I.O.S. and provide just that. Last week, in the Paris headquarters of the French Rothschilds, Guy de Rothschild chaired a secret meeting of European and U.S. bankers to hammer out a proposal for taking over I.O.S. Rothschild's interest was more than the noblesse oblige of a patrician banker. His Banque Rothschild was an underwriter of I.O.S.'s $54 million stock issue last fall, and the Rothschild reputation for astuteness...
Cracker Base. The most significant contest by any measure pitted George Wallace against Albert Brewer in Alabama. That Wallace's bluntly racist comeback campaign succeeded in toppling the comparatively moderate, attractive Governor both showed the density of white resentment in the Deep South and broadcast ripples that will be felt in other states...