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...Southern California, they have practically begged the swallows to return to Capistrano, where the birds are a big tourist attraction. But the central California city of Fairfield (pop. 58,000) has for three months suffered an almost Hitchcockian invasion of birds. Starlings, perhaps 200,000 at one time, have chosen to winter in a local eucalyptus grove. Major Hal Biestek, a pilot stationed at nearby Travis Air Force Base, lives close to the grove, directly under the starlings' flight path. "It was so loud," said Biestek of the birds' chirps and screeches, "it kept us awake at night...
Noise was not the half of it. Starlings eat one-eighth their weight in food each day, and they have an extremely high metabolic rate. In short, Fairfield has been whitewashed with droppings, leading some townspeople to walk with opened umbrellas on cloudless days...
...Finally, Fairfield's height took its tollon Harvard with Field scoring the game's final basket with 21 seconds left. Harvard missed two final chances to score as their cagerness culminated into sloppiness...
...captain Horne said "We played really well, but we should have won the game." Dealing with Fairfield's height was very difficult, but "we did everything we wanted to do; we just came out on the short...
...Fairfield 56, Women's basketball...