Word: flocks
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Wandering through a Florida meadow in the spring of 1952, amateur Birdwatcher Richard Borden spotted a curious sight: among a grazing herd of cattle was a flock of yellow-legged, short-necked white herons, darting between the cows' legs, snaring grasshoppers flushed up from the pasture. Borden casually shot a series of pictures, mistaking the birds for snowy egrets, a common Florida species. Months later, Borden discovered he had the first pictures ever taken of a new U.S. immigrant: the Old World's buff-backed, yellow-billed cattle egret (Bubulcus ibis...
Missing and given up for lost after an intensive six-day search last week was a Strategic Air Command RB-47E, a reconnaissance version of the B-47 jet bomber, and its six-man crew. Based in Britain, the plane, carrying a flock of cameras and a cabin full of electronic equipment, had sped north and east over Arctic waters on a mission that would have taken it into the Barents Sea 100 miles west of the Soviet island of Novaya Zemlya...
...role. New York Times Travel Editor Paul J. C. Friedlander has a staff of five men and a secretary. Travel supplements proliferate, ranging from the Chicago Tribune, which prints one every week, to the Oakland Tribune, which produces two a year. Resort hotels, steamship companies, airlines and luggage manufacturers flock almost unbidden to advertise; last year the Chicago Tribune grossed $4,414,684 in travel ads, and the New York Times some $8,000,000; the Times travel ad lineage is up 300% from war's end. Yet, for all the highly respectable growth in his profession, the travel...
Vital equipment for the new flock of U.S. missiles is the launching system that must get the bird into the air as quickly as possible after the fire signal. Last week the Air Force awarded an $81,567,000 contract to American Machine & Foundry Co. to build 36 new launching systems for the Titan ICBM, similar to its prototype system at California's Vandenberg Air Force base. With the new contract, which brings its share of the ballistic missile program to $166 million, American Machine & Foundry will produce and install nine operational launching complexes for each of four missile...
...York's 96-vote delegation to the G.O.P. Convention in Chicago, and writing Republican National Chairman Thruston Morton in May that he "would not attend in any capacity" because his "mere attendance could be misconstrued," Governor Nelson Rockefeller last week announced that he would lead the New York flock to the Chicago stockyards, after all.* Rocky finally decided the trip was worthwhile after he had been assured that the delegates would be pledged to no candidate, and that nobody in Chicago was going to ask him to be Vice President. ¶ After saying in January 1959 that he needed...