Word: hens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week a U.S.-Canadian committee called the Whooping Crane Advisory Group gathered in Washington to consider some schemes for keeping the whooping crane from going the way of the heath hen and the passenger pigeon. Shelved: a proposal to capture several pairs of cranes and try to breed them in captivity. Left pending: a more modest proposal to capture a lone crane and try to mate it with the one in San Antonio. A difficulty in this scheme: since adult whooping cranes look alike to human eyes, the chances would run only 50-50 that the new pair would...
...loose an average 29 points a game with set shots from outside, or driving lay-ups. All season he has been right up among the leaders for national scoring honors, and despite his size the pros are already dickering for his services. Hen-non, another little (5-ft.-9-in.) man, is a manufactured expert; his father, a Pennsylvania high-school coach, had him handling a basketball at the age of four...
...recluse who has not spoken to him for 15 years for unjustly killing her fiancé as a collaborationist. His brother, who dutifully manages the family glass foundry, has been cuckolded by the count. His neglected adolescent daughter has a bad outbreak of mystical acne. And his wife, low hen in the family pecking order, is just a plaintive misfit...
Architect Eero Saarinen's description of the castle at Brandeis University as "Mexican Ivanhoe" [Nov. 19] reminds me of Sinclair Lewis' equally unkind characterization of modernist structures as "glass-fronted hen-houses." The castle (see cut) was designed by my father, Dr. John Hall Smith, founder of Middlesex University, to house the classrooms and laboratories of its School of Medicine. More befitting the medieval grandeur of our castle are the lines of Wordsworth...
Animated Decoy. A battery-powered plastic duck that simulates feeding movements of a mallard is being marketed by Riley Decoy Corp., Eugene, Ore. Later this year the firm will also offer hunters an animated mallard hen. Price: $17.95, with battery...