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Wandering through a Florida meadow in the spring of 1952, amateur Birdwatcher Richard Borden spotted a curious sight: among a grazing herd of cattle was a flock of yellow-legged, short-necked white herons, darting between the cows' legs, snaring grasshoppers flushed up from the pasture. Borden casually shot a series of pictures, mistaking the birds for snowy egrets, a common Florida species. Months later, Borden discovered he had the first pictures ever taken of a new U.S. immigrant: the Old World's buff-backed, yellow-billed cattle egret (Bubulcus ibis...
...time the men around here, if indeed they are men at all, stopped letting the girls over at Radcliffe push them around. Every Saturday night 1100 Cliffies in search of respectable entertainment herd a similar number of Harvardian sheep into Boston. Most of them attend movies, but the simple fact that the poor dolt had to trek into Boston with his date seems to compensate for the vulgarity of mere flicking...
...over all," he cried to the throng gathered to celebrate the nation's soth anniversary. "The whites must continue to govern." And in case anyone had any doubts that apartheid was still to remain the holy doctrine, he called for full speed ahead on the vast project to herd millions of South African blacks into segregated tribal states in the virgin bush...
...Herd. On the morning of the revolution, General Gursel was fetched by military jet from his Izmir home. By 9:30 a.m., he was sitting at Menderes' desk in Ankara, proclaiming himself provisional head of government and the armed forces. "I tried to reason with the politicians, but they were blinded by ambition. We had to act," he told the nation in a radio broadcast. "They ignored my advice. They thought the Turkish nation was a senseless herd." He added: "I have no intention, I repeat, no intention whatever of being a dictator.'' The whole purpose...
...some striking shots of animal life : a balding aardvark that spoons ants out of an anthill with a sticky pink tongue almost two feet long ; an immense gorilla that one moment crashes through canebrake like an express train, and the next sits placidly sucking a palm stalk ; a vast herd of zebras plunging, as they plunge in Roy Campbell's vivid sonnet, "Barred with electric tremors through the grass/ Like wind along the gold strings of a lyre...