Word: nest
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Capturing the wild birds, which tend to nest on cliffs and other towering places, is no easy trick. And breeding the falcons and returning their offspring to nature are even more difficult. So that peregrine chicks will think of their new man-made eyries as natural homes, they must be placed while they are still flightless-and thus most vulnerable to predators. Great horned owls, the peregrine's major natural enemy, killed two of the birds released in New York State last year. One was electrocuted when it lighted on a high-voltage transformer...
...think it is rather sad that with all the Oscars won by One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest [April 12], and all the thank-yous for the golden idols, not one of the recipients mentioned Ken Kesey, the author of the novel...
...Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest...
...KILL YOU reads one. A BOAST NOW, A BOMB LATER goes another. Over lunch at the staid Salisbury Club, business and government leaders dismiss those who worry about the future as "dismal Jimmys." But many are quietly preparing what they refer to as "fallback positions, " slowly salting away nest eggs abroad despite Rhodesia's stiff system of restrictions on overseas capital transfers. More houses than ever are up for sale, but there are few takers. Last year nearly 10,000 whites left Rhodesia for good. The country's white population was maintained by Portuguese immigrants from Angola...
Fletcher's acceptance was the third stage of a five-way sweep for One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. Before her award, the movie had already won statuettes for best-adapted screenplay and for Milos Forman's direction. Cuckoo would proceed to win Jack Nicholson his long-deferred Best Actor Oscar and, finally, take the Best Picture prize. Not since It Happened One Night in 1934 had one film copped the five principal Oscars and, lest this point be overlooked, Cuckoo Co-Producer Michael Douglas hastened to remind everyone...