Word: garten
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...April 1958 a wave of excitement swept through Britain's museums and bird clubs. After a 42-year absence, a pair of ospreys was spotted at Loch Garten. Ornithologist George Waterston, Scottish representative of the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds, stood guard while the hen laid three eggs. The oölogist enemy was watching, too. At 2 a.m. one dark night, an egg snatcher climbed the tree. The defenders gave chase, but the oölogist escaped into a nearby forest, dropping and smashing two of the eggs as he fled...
First they came in a trickle, then by the hundreds and thousands, to look up at the 50-ft. pine beside Loch Garten, 35 miles southeast of Inverness, Scotland. By last week, little more than a month since the announcement, more than 10,000 pilgrims had viewed the untidy nest of sticks among the branches. Its occupants: a family of ospreys (fish hawks) with three fledglings-the first to be hatched in Britain since 1916. When the young birds flap off on their own in a week or two, they will mark a signal victory of British bird lovers over...
...Munich, our special correspondent, Robert Ball, joined the search for information. He went from inconspicuous downtown buildings to an antenna-studded former Luftwaffe base in the suburbs and back to a house hidden among the trees in the Englischer Garten to check with the agencies that monitor Communist-country radio broadcasts and interview refugees from behind the curtain. From these and other private sources, Ball was able to help us flesh out the file for our story, "The Third Man" (TIME, Dec. 19), the first hard look U.S. readers have had at General of the Army Ivan Alexandrovich Serov...