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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...have feeders at home. Every year prior to the last two we fed dozens of juncos, chickadees, white-crowned sparrows and the like. And up here at the courthouse, I fed other dozens on snowy days. This year there's not a solitary one. I haven't seen or heard a meadowlark in this neighborhood. East of here, across the divide, the bird population has always been ten times-at least visibly-what it is on this side. On May 18th, I drove over there. Not a single horned lark, sage, field or song sparrow, nor a solitary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Aug. 22, 1969 | 8/22/1969 | See Source »

...Paul, Minn., the reaction was almost as if another leader had been shot. "I haven't felt like this," sobbed one Catholic housewife there, "since Jack Kennedy was killed." No one, as a matter of fact, had died, but one of Roman Catholicism's most articulate and progressive shepherds in the U.S. had been abruptly estranged from his flock. The Most Rev. James P. Shannon, who had resigned as auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of St. Paul-Minneapolis earlier this year (TIME, June 6), last week announced that he had married. The wedding took place...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Roman Catholics: Bishops in Trouble | 8/22/1969 | See Source »

...quits. At a crowded and emotion-charged news conference in Los Angeles, he gravely announced: "I deeply regret having to retire, but as they say, there are some things that are inevitable -like death, taxes and retirement from professional sports. The elasticity is gone from my arm, and I haven't been able to throw a good fast ball all year. I couldn't stand to be a four-inning pitcher, and that's just about all I'm good for now." Appearing with Drysdale, Manager Walt Alston wept unashamedly. "I'm sure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Baseball: The Departure of Big D | 8/22/1969 | See Source »

...glad to fix it up," Wexler reports. "Only I said every time someone said a 'dirty' word I would substitute the word kill. That way we'd have things like 'Kill you!' and 'Put me down, you killer!' I haven't heard any complaints from them since...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Movies: Dynamite | 8/22/1969 | See Source »

Dartmouth, up until last season, was another Crimson stumbling block, but the Indians were very little last year, and they haven't grown much since. Coach Bob Blackman has both quarterbacks returning, and has good running backs. The Green will be better, but they will...

Author: By John L. Powers, | Title: A Look Ahead to Harvard Football '69 | 8/15/1969 | See Source »

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