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Dates: during 1970-1979
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California's peregrine falcons are rarer than giant condors. Only about a dozen of them have been sighted in the whole state. So when two fledglings hatched in a nest near the top of a sheer, 580-ft. rock on Morro Bay, neighborhood Bird Watchers Vernon Davy and his wife organized a round-the-clock vigil. But falconers, who want the birds for hunting, were also on the alert...
Early this month two of them slipped past the bird watchers and climbed the peak, only to be arrested on the way down. The fledglings were returned to their nest. A second raid was organized by a three-man team of falconers equipped with climbing ropes and walkie-talkies. Although two of the climbers were caught, the third escaped with the birds. The two thieves were arraigned last week and face penalties of $1000 in fines and one year in jail. But Mrs. Davy was disconsolate. "We are sick and can't eat," she said. "Those birds were part...
Drama has an affinity for detection. Almost every play has elements of mystery and surprise. It is like a nest of clues that must be woven together in the course of an evening to reveal some final, unified meaning...
...Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, adapted from Ken Kesey's novel, a woman is used as the symbolic agent of a vindictively oppressive social system. The autocratic nurse who orders the rebel hero of the asylum lobotomized is intellectually presented as conformity's tool in crushing individualists. The emotional line of the play, however, suggests that the hero's real crime is machismo. He is, in effect, being castrated by a neurotic, sex-starved spinster in an acute fit of penis envy...
...make the setup sweeter, the loot is dirty money, the kind of quarter-million-dollar nest egg socked away by people with the same ethics as the coke-snorter and the quartermaster. "Crooks," as the alarms expert points out, "are the only ones who can't holler...