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...some schemes for keeping the whooping crane from going the way of the heath hen and the passenger pigeon. Shelved: a proposal to capture several pairs of cranes and try to breed them in captivity. Left pending: a more modest proposal to capture a lone crane and try to mate it with the one in San Antonio. A difficulty in this scheme: since adult whooping cranes look alike to human eyes, the chances would run only 50-50 that the new pair would really make a pair. Maybe even whooping cranes find it hard to tell the difference...
...team's plight is that a great deal of the much- heralded sophomore has gone to waste for lack of adequate coaching. Take the case of Don Stephenson. Stephenson, a Holderness graduate, is rated among the best in the East. At Holderness, he consistently beat team-mate Dick Taylor. This year, Taylor finished second for Dartmouth in cross country in the Middlebury Carnival; Stephenson came in 12th...
...suburban sanctuary to attend the wedding of his most recent (ninth) exwife, sometime Burlesqueen Anita Roddy-Eden, 34, and India-born Cinemactor John (Tonight We Raid Calais) Sutton. Making a grand entrance at the scene of the civil ceremony, a hotel library, Anita gazed fondly at her discarded mate and his successor, cooed: "Darlings, I want you both!" Quipped the groom: "Have you got an extra wedding ring, Tommy? I forgot mine." Later, Playboy Manville recalled the nuptials with elation: "It was the happiest day of my life-a wedding where I did not get married...
...report added that college sex morality is somewhat better than the academic morality. The document reported, however, that students at Cornell "attach little importance to chastity as a criterion for choosing a mate...
...coincidence a paddy-wagon mate on the ride to Federal Detention Headquarters was Ukrainian-born Irving Potash, 55, one of the eleven top Reds convicted under the Smith Act in 1949 of conspiring to teach and advocate the violent overthrow of the Government. Deported by his own choice last year after serving 41 months of a five-year sentence, Potash mysteriously re-entered the U.S. (he refused to say how). Arrested in January, he was sentenced to two years' imprisonment for illegal entry...