Word: goldenly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Fifth Avenue, to a Broadway theater packed with the press and theatrical, radio and movie world hierarchy. A young junior exec on the scene at the time, I was recruited to give a five-minute performance under green grease paint, but without rehearsal or direction. It was the golden opportunity for an aspiring actor, but I flunked it completely because of stage fright. Mr. Sarnoff kept me in the doghouse from then...
...hare hopped from the thicket and dashed frantically across the field toward a copse of birch and poplar. Thirty yards away, the great golden eagle launched itself from its master's gauntleted arm and swiftly closed the distance. The hare zigzagged desperately. No use. Flashing 20 ft. overhead, the eagle gave a sort of shrug and folded its wings. Legs rigid, it plummeted downward, driving its talons deep into the hare's skull, killing the animal instantly. Then, poised over its prey, 3-ft. wings spread in triumph, it shrieked impatiently for its master to hurry along with...
...well over 1,000 falconers in the Western world still practice the ancient sport, and in parts of Asia and Africa it is still a basic means of gathering food. The eagles are the biggest (up to 15 lbs.) and most powerful birds of prey. A brace of trained golden eagles accounted for 32 foxes and 18 wolves in one recent hunting season in the Soviet Union; even rugged mountain sheep and full-grown deer fall to their claws...
Music for Music. Nadien is son of Golden Boy. Raised in Manhattan, he is the offspring of an undefeated bantamweight boxer who fought the champion to a draw, then gave up the ring to appease his wife and train his son in his own first love, the violin. David soloed with the New York Philharmonic at 14, later combined his concert career with studio work, often recording from seven to nine hours at a crack. His new job means a cut of about $15,000 in his yearly income. "Before, it was music for money's sake," he says...
Against the golden...