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...Haledon, N.J., blames Odear for turning him into a chaser. "Before Bob started the service in January of 1985, I was relatively passive," he says. Komito says he hunts rarities by tacking on a day or two of birding to a legitimate business trip. But when the ruddy ground dove was reported in Texas last November, he was there the next day, with no business trip as an excuse. He expects to fly 300,000 miles on birding trips this year and does not want to tot up the costs. "It would scare me if I found out," he says...
...comic exaggeration with practiced ease. There are no seams between the ambling lies of the 19th century frontier yarn spinner (his literary heritage) and the slick ambiguities of the 20th century novelist. When the tall tales have room to unwind to the horizon, as they do in Lonesome Dove (1985), McMurtry's haunting legend of the last cattle drives, the result is extraordinary. This sort of storytelling works best with a lot of action, however, and the new novel describes a man becalmed...
From the Harvard goal line, Graney faked a pitch to a teammate and dove into the endzone for the four points...
...Saturday the program will move to the Boston Public Library and on Sunday Harvard will host H. Rap Brown, Dove and Reed...
Other victories in the Yale meet came from freshman George Imredy, who captured the 200 butterfly, and diver Pat Healy, who proved tops on both the one-and three-meter boards. Healy swept the B.U. divers as well, but dove unofficially...