Word: larking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...triumph. Most of these birders are among the 235,000 members of Audubon societies, which this year sent out about 10,000 people in platoons to take the 1961 bird census in 50 states. Each group covered a specific sector with a 15-mile diameter. It was no lark. In many cases, birders have to photograph rare specimens to get credit for them, and in some instances, extremely rare finds are shot down to prove the sighting. In this fashion, naturalists keep track of the ups and downs among various species in the bird population...
...tenth annual running of Washington, D.C.'s $100,000 International Stakes, Veteran Jockey Johnny Longden, on superbly conditioned TV Lark, shrewdly held back until the final turn to challenge Kelso (TIME, Nov. 10), the race's odds-on 2-5 favorite, then dueled down the stretch to come in ahead of Kelso by three-quarters of a length in a surprising 2:26⅓-nearly two seconds below the race record for the mile-and-a-half classic...
Studebaker-Packard. Under ambitious new President Sherwood H. Egbert (TIME. April 21). S.P. has brought out its handsomest cars in several years. To overcome their sawed-off look, the Lark and Lark Cruiser are as much as 13 inches longer than last year's models, and have been adorned with an upright grille similar to that of the Mercedes Benz (which S.P. markets in the U.S.). On the restyled Hawk. S.P. designers have also used the Mercedes look up front and a roof that borrows some of the thunder from Ford's Thunderbird. Though S.P. has dipped...
...manufacturers, as usual, insisted on shrouding the new models in secrecy, so as to get the utmost response from buyers during the fall unveilings. But here and there, they allowed a glimpse: a peek-a-boo of a Lark in the woods, a new Plymouth wrapped in bedsheets. In general, the new models' intermediate size is a compromise that offers greater inside roominess with reasonable outside dimensions-very much, in fact, like the cars of a decade ago. Having found that buyers insist on all kinds of fancy extras (Chevy's 1961 Corvair got off to a slow...
...energetic old lady, a file of young girls dressed in blue jumpers and white blouses, their arms laden with daffodils, trooped across Manhattan's fashionable upper East Side. The girls marched into Central Park, gathered at the statue of William Shakespeare, knelt, and sang Hark, Hark the Lark in homage to the Bard...