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...they are the only birds that can hover with body motionless, and the only ones that have a " 'reverse gear' which enables them to fly backwards as prettily and efficiently as they can forwards." What will most excite bird watchers as well as plain readers is the crisp, full-color photographs, the largest collection ever published, which catch the hummingbirds in dazzling flight...
...Tammy Grimes) from Hannibal, Mo. who went forth into the world with a stout heart and flying fists to kayo success. She married a miner (Harve Presnell) who doted on her and, when he struck it rich, hid $300,000 in a stove, where it was burned to a crisp. When he struck it richer, she carted him to Denver, got mauled trying to crash society, and carted him to Europe. He in time went back to Leadville and his saloon pals; she in time survived the Titanic ; and the two of them-in the theater- are reunited...
...engineer on the arrival time. Says he of the 7:34: "It hasn't varied more than two or three minutes for quite some time now." After a packed day, Donner heads homeward with a briefcase full of papers, brings them back next morning marked with his own crisp comments...
Inhaling the crisp autumnal political air, Democrats around the country sensed victory. Kennedy was more exhilarated and confident than ever. His sweep into New York City last week was a Niagara of ticker tape and enthusiasm. By contrast, the Republican mood was splotched with dark worries. Dick Nixon's entrance into New York hardly got any notice. He spent the few days before Debate No. 4 holed up in his Waldorf suite, chairing strategy sessions. and making no effort to match crowds in Democratic Manhattan. Evidence of the Kennedy surge was growing: the polls and the reporters showed that...
Australia's crisp Sir Frank Macfarlane Burnet, 61, is the ideal scientist: his curiosity continually leads him into new areas of study, and his determination usually keeps him in each long enough to come up with answers. Eleven years ago. when Burnet began to concentrate on the immunological intolerance of the human body -rejection by one body of invading material from another-he already was an authority on influenza, leukemia and viruses. His efforts in these fields won him a U.S. Lasker Award, appointment by Queen Elizabeth to Britain's Order of Merit,* and a reputation so high...