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Dates: during 1960-1969
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With uncanny precision, the northern hemisphere's migratory birds fly south in the fall and north in the spring-often to targets that are continents or even oceans away. One theory holds that some birds get their traveling orders from the stars. Not quite, says Cornell Ornithologist Stephen T. Emlen. The cue comes from a "biological clock" set by the birds' internal response to seasonal changes in the length of days...
Numbers are a part of every segment, brightly illustrated by animations and films. Letters are also featured. On the first program, the letter W was the focus of a segment involving Wanda the Witch, Who Walked to the Well one Wednesday in Winter to get Water to Wash her Wig. The Wig was Whipped away by a Wild Wind. Moral: "Witches Who Wash their Wigs on Windy Winter Wednesdays are Wacky...
...means least impersonation is by James Garner in Marlowe. Bogart is a tough act to follow, and none of the other Marlowes ever matched his blend of soluble morals and incorruptible conscience. Yet of all the Marlowes, Garner is physically closest to the invulnerable knight who could get sapped in the morning and crack a joke and a case by lunchtime...
...wanted to get more blacks and poor whites on our payroll, but they weren't qualified to be hired as journeymen." Murphy said. "So we began the helpers training program." Harvard had previously hired only journeymen...
...Taconic Parkway with the cheerleaders. The toll-taker there told me that hitching is illegal, but that he didn't care what I did. He'd hitched as a boy. "It's illegal to use our john, too," he said, "but if you take a leak outside. they'll get you for indecent exposure. I'm all for it-not indecent exposure, but I still like my sex." He told me to pretend I didn't know him as I thumbed two feet away from his booth. But he waved goodbye when I got picked...