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...Everglades by increasing plankton growth; a loon can be imitated on the ocarina; geese occasionally become homosexual, pair-bonding for life even when heterosexual partners are present; an auk's egg is a marvel of engineering, shaped so that it will not roll from its cliff-edge nest...
...Miro, Edgar Bronfman, 51, the wavy-haired chairman of Seagram Co. Ltd., exudes a certain air of contentment. He should. Last year Bronfman sold the Texas Pacific Oil Co., which Seagram had bought in 1963 for $256 million, to the Sun Co., for $2.3 billion. Bronfman's nest egg has since grown to a stunning $3 billion through shrewd asset management, and he is now leisurely looking for a place to invest the money. Says he: "It's a little like matchmaking. There are a lot of willing brides, but the boy has still to make...
Before the sun comes up, furniture is overturned, leftovers smeared, a door splintered by knives and the air filled with wolfish howls. The revels end on a note of Maggie and Jiggs, with the woman of the house surveying her fouled nest and beaning her husband with...
...This nest of Oxbridge spies, this den of Establishment traitors as well, if Fleet Street is to be believed. Two weeks ago, Britons were stunned by accusations in the Daily Mail that the late Sir Roger Hollis, chief of M15, British counterintelligence, before his retirement in 1965, was himself a Soviet...
...proposal touched off a storm of criticism. Argued Martin D. Boudreau of the U.S. Attorney's Strike Force Against Organized Crime: "It would further encourage persons engaged in criminal activity to set aside a nest egg for the rainy day they are caught and brought to justice." In a Boston Globe you-play-the-judge poll, readers voted more than 3 to 1 to send Krutschewski to jail. But a juror who convicted him, Rachel Holmes, was sympathetic: "It would be wonderful if he could serve the community...