Word: falconer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...FALCON AND THE SNOWMAN by Robert Lindsey
...Falcon and the Snowman omits no telling detail - about falconry, the drug trade, spy satellites, the duo's stoned bum-bung, and their torturous legal battles after capture. But there are enough tantalizing loose ends in the book to make it clear that Lindsey is describing life, not art. Why, for instance, did TRW put a 21-year-old, $140-a-week college dropout in such a sensitive post? Did the leaks really damage U.S. security? Perhaps Boyce and Lee actually were being used by the CIA to spread false evidence. If not, concludes Lindsey, then "the affair...
Herman Brood and HIS Wild Romance and Billy Falcon's Burning Rose. July...
...pole had been attained, it was abandoned for nearly half a century. And then, in the 1957-58 International Geophysical Year, men came back with all the resources of modern technology. Aircraft and snow cats carried the new explorers swiftly and safely over the frozen hell where Robert Falcon Scott perished with his companions. For 20 years now, summer and winter, men and women have been living at the South Pole...
...sailing ship, studded with diamonds and rubies. Kuwait's offering: a double string of pearls and a solid silver model of an Arab TIM GRAHAM dhow. In Saudi Arabia, she picked up a gold incense burner, an amethyst-studded gold tray, a gold coffee jug shaped like a falcon and a pair of matching gold goblets. Prince Philip did not do badly either. His presents included several jewel-studded golden swords. The Prince, however, provided the one awkward moment on an otherwise triumphal tour. At the end of a sightseeing tour in Oman, he observed his car being driven...