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...Hyde performance with a certain duality of our own. We must expose and frustrate the conspirator and negotiate with the patriot. If Mr. Khrushchev is sending a genuine olive branch, then he will find I am perfectly capable of sitting on the branch with him and cooing like a dove...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: COMMON SENSE & CORONETS | 10/25/1963 | See Source »

...natural habitat on European cliffs, the rock dove (Columba livid), with its grey coat, white rump and iridescent head and neck, is an attractive bird. Bred and trained by man, it has become a valiant message carrier, famed for its speed and homing instinct. It has also become a multicolored pest, appealing mainly to snapshooting tourists and aging lonelyhearts who get solace of a sort from feeding the flocks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Infectious Diseases: Kill Those Pigeons? | 10/18/1963 | See Source »

...Dove Shooting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Sep. 27, 1963 | 9/27/1963 | See Source »

...Congratulations on a lively and readable story on the opening of dove season in the Imperial Valley [Sept. 13]. I was there, and your article captured the spirit of the occasion admirably...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Sep. 27, 1963 | 9/27/1963 | See Source »

...Imperial Valley ranchers hate dove shooting for the damages done to people, pets, wildlife and clothes hanging on the clotheslines. The villagers stay away from the country through fear of being "winged" by trigger-wild Davy Crocketts from the city...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Sep. 27, 1963 | 9/27/1963 | See Source »

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