Word: falconers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Ford's Falcon sales jumped 17.5% over March to 44,600. The Thunderbird also hit a monthly sales record...
...auto industry, the big sales of compacts represent success at a price. They are taking sales away from some automakers' bread-and-butter lines; e.g., Chrysler's Valiant is outselling the Plymouth. At Ford, the runaway success of the Falcon is such that Ford has stopped releasing sales figures for standard Fords (the new Comet is also outselling its sister Mercury...
...piano, short (5 ft. 6 in.), 49-year-old Shura Cherkassky looked a little like a pouncing falcon. Perched on the edge of his stool, his face near the keys, he struck thunderous volleys of sound without clouting the keys or becoming percussive and harsh. Unhampered by a span* of only ten keys, he executed impressively agile runs, showed off subtly colored nuances without ever sagging into sentimentality. Headlined Der Tagesspiegel: "A TRIUMPH OF VIRTUOSITY...
Valiant, after starting later and well behind, is beginning to roll; last week's production of 7,000 units edged Chevrolet's Corvair out of third place behind Ford's Falcon and American Motors' Rambler. This fall, announced Colbert, Chrysler will market another compact, the Lancer, as a somewhat larger stablemate for the Valiant. It will have a 30°-inclined, six-cylinder engine turning up 101 h.p., and a price tag just a bit more than the Valiant's factory list price...
...Author Peterson, who is credited with the All-America record for having seen 572 species of birds in a single year, finds Texas bird life more varied than any other state's. It includes such bait for bird watchers as the caracara (an oddball falcon that eats carrion), the chachalaca (only guan in North America), the roadrunner (a giant, snake-killing cuckoo) and the jagana (a long-toed "lily trotter"). Altogether, there are 487 different "basic species" which occur regularly, plus 55 accidentals (recorded fewer than five times), for a grand total of 542 species. This leaves California, notes...