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...television industry hardly knew, last week, whether to wince or cheer. In a baccalaureate address. Boston University's President Dr. Daniel L. Marsh warned that "if the [television] craze continues with the present level of programs, we are destined to have a nation of morons." But from a suburb of TV-happy Baltimore came cheerier news. A survey made by School Principal Joseph Barlow of Essex, Md. seemed to show that TV has knit families more closely; reduced street accidents to children; improved adolescent behavior; sped up housework by wives eager to get to their sets; and cut down...
...spoke he came to grips with an insurmountable problem: a cat, addressing dogs, does not dare speak like a dog for fear he will be accused of imitating an Airedale, and dare not speak like a cat for fear of annihilation. There is only one recourse-a dry, neutral marsh-bird tone...
...from the Gulf Coast to unknown breeding grounds in Canada, but Crip and Josephine, the parents of Little 38, had been grounded by wing injuries. Last fall they were brought together by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and given the run of 150 acres of well-fenced Texas marsh. It was not certain that they would get along together. Some were not even certain, in spite of their names, that they were male & female...
When one of the great birds, probably Josephine, laid a large, brown-speckled egg, the tension outside the fence neared the bursting point. Wildlifers tramped the marsh, guarding against such raiders as egg-sucking raccoons. Unauthorized visitors were kept at a distance while the cranes took turns on the nest, one of them caring for the egg while the other strode off for food...
During his stay on the property, Madden claimed he had spent over $40,000 in improving the land that he first took over as a marsh...