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...this elegant little piece of nature literature, Author Robert Murphy (The Pond, The Peregrine Falcon) describes the life of one golden eagle from the day she leaves the nest in Colorado to the day she sinks her beak into the poisoned carcass of a ewe. Only two years intervene, but in that limited lifetime she accomplishes almost everything the species was designed to do. In describing what she does, Author Murphy, a man who can think like a scientist and write like a bird, manages to produce both a fascinating tale and a veritable encyclopedia of the eagle...
...that yoo've seen the kangarew See if yoo can find the yew. I'll give yew a gud cloo-She's hiding behind the ewe. Yoors trooly...
Suspicion immediately focused on Ghana's Strongman Kwame Nkrumah, who has conducted a bitter feud with Olympio over control of the powerful, 700,000-member Ewe (pronounced Evvy) tribe, which was split between both countries by European boundary-setters. Twice before, assassins had tried to kill Olympio; each time Ghana's agents were accused. But this time it was Olympio's own zealous economies that brought disaster...
...promise is big, since few of the countries have any kind of reference books. With its new Ford money, Franklin is also thinking about untapped markets from Spanish-speaking Latin America to French-speaking West Africa. Soon due for Africa: a first edition of Ferdinand the Bull in Ewe, Fanti...
...Veterinarian Herbert B. Parry, whose work is supported by New York's National Foundation for Neuromuscular Diseases, reports convincing evidence from years of study on 1,000 scrapie-ridden sheep that the disease is hereditary, being transmitted by a certain type of recessive gene. If both ram and ewe have two such genes, all their lambs will have scrapie. If one animal has the genes but its mate has none, the "clear" genes will dominate, and the lambs will have no disease. Dr. Parry is still checking a theory that if both parent animals have a single scrapie gene...