Word: craning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Cambridge Committee was organized by Robert Conley '43 and Russell Peck '43, assistant dean at the Law School. Mayor Joseph E. DeGuglielmo '29 and former Mayor Edward A. Crane '35 will conduct the opening, and Borden Stevenson '55, the son of the Presidential candidate, has been invited to attend...
...Iowa had Ike's staff forcibly restraining heady visions of victory. Crowds unequaled since Franklin Roosevelt's greatest days turned out at every step from Davenport to Des Moines. As the train passed down through the corn-hog country the farmers left their fields to wave and crane for a sight of the candidate. In Iowa City a crowd of 5,000 (out of a population of 27,000) got caught in a chilly rain but stuck out the discomfort until Ike had finished his talk...
...whooping crane (Grus americana) is the tallest bird in North America. Depending on how proudly it holds its long neck, it can stand from four to six feet. It is also probably the noisiest bird; its elongated windpipe so amplifies its hysterical cry that it can be heard two miles away. Pure white, except for some black wing and head feathers and reddish-brown head spots, it is one of the most beautiful of birds. In flight, its wingspread is seven feet; on the ground, it walks haughtily through marshes in search of frogs and snakes, or performs...
...crane is a vanishing aristocrat. Like human monarchs, it has had trouble adjusting to modern times and keeping its royal line going. Most of the whooping cranes disappeared with the American and Canadian frontier. Today the crane is the rarest bird on the continent; only 25 are known to exist...
Happily, two Cambridge Civic Association city councillors, Crane and Deguglielmo, had long since adjusted their eyesight to the halo's glare. As politicians, they knew far better than the despairing Herald that efficiency and honesty are no more than first steps to good government. Happily, too, the man they helped elect has equally keen eyes...