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...area is a nesting ground for the whooping crane-the first found in Canada since 1922. Under the 1916 Migratory Birds treaty with the U.S., Canada's Wildlife Service is now bound to protect the area and do all it can to prevent the rare bird from becoming extinct...
Diarist Strong belonged to a species of American now almost extinct. He was one of those solid, versatile squires who did their public duty even while suspecting public life, and clung fiercely to a creed of almost fanatical independence. He liked men who worked for themselves, and distrusted both Southern slave owner and Northern capitalist; neither, it seemed to him, could quite be a gentleman. He enjoyed comfort but disdained luxury, prided himself on literary cultivation yet squinted uneasily at intellectuals. He lived, or aspired to live, by the tone and manners of the Founding Fathers...
Last year Zoologist Charles Wharton, an adventurous young (28) scientist financed by the Coolidge Foundation, set out for Cambodia to study the kouprey, an elusive and nearly extinct wild ox. Back in the U.S. last week, he had learned a lot about the kouprey, despite the hazards of scientific research in IndoChina's guerrilla-infested jungles...
...habit. Our own BBC always finds it necessary ... to put "local" and plebeian language in the mouths of policemen, bus and taxi drivers, artisans and the "working class" in general. If TIME was a genuine student of the London scene, it would be aware that "cockney" idiom is almost extinct. This stigma of an elementary education has been eradicated to a great extent by a progressive educational system and improved social conditions...
Sensitive performances, however, especially by students, have become almost extinct. The tendency to interpret, rather than perform, Bach's music has resulted in streamlined superficiality on the one hand, and vitiating sentimentality on the other. But Joseph Ponte played with finesse and precision, as well as fidelity to the composer's intentions...