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Moral tenets, whether held by church or state, are meant to be lived, not merely paid lip-service. Here is just the point where faith and democracy successfully merge, and it is a pity that Mr. Jencks allows red-herring speculations about "the inanely tolerant American public" and the bad taste of "opposing Catholics more than necessary" to obscure it. Such considerations as these intimate that Roman Catholic ethics, while generously admitted to be a cut above those encouraged by "allegiance to Moscow" are contrary to the ideals of the American government, an idea that can only derive from...
...Herring gulls which lay only one egg "fail to receive the proper psychological stimulation" and hence will not sit on the egg as much as a three-egg mother sits on hers, Raymond A. Paynter, associate curator of birds at the Museum of Comparative Zoology, said last night...
Once hatched, the chicks have more problems; 30 per cent are pecked to death by adults of colony. Paynter discussed a composite life table for herring gulls based on 1935 gull banding and on 1947 prefledging mortality...
...Bureau of Commercial Fisheries was planning a dirty scientific trick to play on schools of herring and menhaden off the Maine coast last week. At Boothbay Harbor, Me., the 139-ft. "pogy" (menhaden) boat Rappahannock is fitted with a 52-h.p. compressor that delivers 196 cu. ft. of air at the pressure of 80 lbs. per sq. in. The idea is to shoot the air through perforated tubes sunk in the water near schools of fish. Curtains of bubbles rising from the perforations look to the fish like an impassable barrier and shoo them toward the Rappahannock...
...suspense mounted. Lights were extinguished, musicians scrambled to their chairs on the bandstand. Eddie's father, Joe Fisher, a retired suitcase manufacturer from Philadelphia, turned to Aly Khan. "Prince," said he, "have some caviar. Me, I like herring." Aly nodded gravely. "Yes, Monsieur Fisher père," he replied, "when a herring is good, it is very, very good, but when it is not good, it is awful...