Word: hummingbird
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...daily, L'Equipe (circ. 300,000), decided to give its monthly magazine Sport & Vie a new name-Vive les Vacances!-and itself a new partner: Hachette. And last week Hachette added two new names to its list of magazines: Caroline, an illustrated weekly for young girls, and Colibri (Hummingbird), a puzzle, game and picture book for children...
STAND STILL LIKE THE HUMMINGBIRD (194 pp.)-Henry Wilier-New Directions...
Stand Still Like the Hummingbird is a collection of essays written over the last 30 years, dealing with topics 1 and 2 and designed to demonstrate that Miller is really a serious thinker. But it may well ruin Miller's profitably bad reputation in the U.S. (Tropic of Cancer, free from federal restraint since 1961, is selling hugely, thanks in part to the police chiefs in some 60 communities, who hound it with a righteousness usually reserved for bookmakers who do not pay their protection money.) A random sampling produces: "Fresh from Europe, the American scene held about...
...Cardiologist James Conrad and his wife and two children were using a station wagon and a tent. Neither family fished, but they sailed and hiked. Bird Lover Painter delighted in helping the children discover some wonderful birds-a hoarse raven that flapped over the yellow pines, a broad-tailed hummingbird, a pine siskin, a violet green swallow, bluebirds and chickadees, orioles and woodpeckers...
...HUMMINGBIRDS, by Crawford H.Greenewalt (250 pp.; Doubleday; $22.50), may become a classic of natural history. Author Greenewalt, president of mighty E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co., has written a monograph, understandable to laymen, on his hobby-hummingbirds. Greenewalt offers some intriguing hummingbird lore, including the fact that they are the only birds that can hover with body motionless, and the only ones that have a " 'reverse gear' which enables them to fly backwards as prettily and efficiently as they can forwards." What will most excite bird watchers as well as plain readers is the crisp, full-color...