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First they came in a trickle, then by the hundreds and thousands, to look up at the 50-ft. pine beside Loch Garten, 35 miles southeast of Inverness, Scotland. By last week, little more than a month since the announcement, more than 10,000 pilgrims had viewed the untidy nest of sticks among the branches. Its occupants: a family of ospreys (fish hawks) with three fledglings-the first to be hatched in Britain since 1916. When the young birds flap off on their own in a week or two, they will mark a signal victory of British bird lovers over...
...Crisis. The effects of the strike landed nowhere with more personal impact than on the Steelworkers themselves, tramping the streets just as it was announced that the nation's employment had hit an alltime high. Many workers faced out-and-out hardship, but most had a nest egg and meat in the freezer. Workers got one to two weeks' pay before the mills closed (average: $125 a week before deductions ). still have another two to three weeks' vacation wages coming. Dave McDonald halted the pay of 1,000 union officers, including his own $50,000 a year...
...subject) turned out 39 Italianate operas, which shaped English operatic style for a generation, and almost singlehanded gave a new, dramatic shape to oratorio style. A shrewd businessman, he combed Italy for singers, scored such a success with famed Soprano Francesca Cuzzoni -described by one listener as having "a nest of nightingales in her belly"-that she sold out a benefit performance of his Ottone at a top of ?50 a seat...
...Mimi wanted marriage and refused to feather the Munich love nest Hitler offered. Growled Hitler: "All women ever think of is having babies." Having divorced her first husband, lonely Maria married an SS officer named Kubisch in 1936. Hitler congratulated Kubisch before the assembled Munich SS, and later sent Mimi 100 red roses when Kubisch was killed in France...
...trouble begins at about that point. Secretly, she is not at all sure she loves the man; she is not at all sure what love is. And he runs into a hornet's nest at home. His sister, who has kept house for him since the death of his wife, sobs bitterly: "My whole life, my whole life I gave up!" And his book-smart daughter, blissfully unaware of her own father fixation, sweetly explains to him why his behavior is "neurotic...