Word: herons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Linked by an umbilical causeway to a shadowy mainland. Great Heron Island is the summer nesting place of a memorable colony of rare social birds. It swims in a body of water carefully left vague by the author but which readers will have no trouble at all locating - due south of O'Hara Point, due east of Marquand
Sound. On Great Heron, the great divide is not between rich and poor; there are no poor. It is the lingering schism from the great debate of 1942. when family was set against family over whether to hold the annual island croquet tournament in wartime. The "it would be bad taste'' faction finally won out over those who insisted that "the Boys would want the tournament . . . after all what are they fighting...
Sweeping down court on the attack, the University of Utah's heron-legged Bill ("The Hill") McGill is one of the basketball phenomena of the year-a 6-ft. 9-in., 215-lb. giant who can nevertheless dribble with the slick speed of a sawed-off backcourt man and get off every shot in the book, ranging from arching hooks to driving layups. Last week McGill's average was up to 28.7 points a game, the fourth highest in the nation. Shrugged the University of Denver's Coach Hoyt Brawner after losing to Utah...
...good citizen, obey the laws, but never get mixed up in politics. Never contribute to political campaigns and never pay baksheesh. Never. Never." He does much of his traveling between London and The Hague, where the Group keeps separate headquarters, flies back and forth in a de Havilland Heron from the Group's fleet of 60 planes...
...outs or waiting for foul shots, he gnaws nervously on the thumb of his right hand, looking like somebody's little brother tagging after the big boys. Standing an even 6 ft., the Philadelphia War rior's guard barely comes to the chins of some of the heron-legged stars of the National Basketball Association. But when Guy Rodgers gets his gifted hands on the ball, the game belongs...