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Bird Man of Alcatraz. Burt Lancaster gives his finest performance as a murderer who in prison becomes an ornithologist...
Bird Man of Alcatraz. Burt Lancaster gives his finest performance as Robert F. Stroud, a murderer who became an ornithologist while in solitary confinement for 43 years...
Bird Man of Alcatraz. Burt Lancaster gives his finest performance as Robert F. Stroud, a murderer who became an ornithologist while in solitary confinement for 43 years...
...Natural History magazine, two physicists (Cambridge University's Dr. I.C.T. Nisbet and M.I.T.'s Dr. R. R. Richardson) team up with Ornithologist W. H. Drury Jr. of the Massachusetts Audubon Society to report the triumphs of electronic bird watching. Even the earliest radars, they say, picked up mysterious targets that operators call "angels." Most of the angels proved to be big birds-seagulls or wild geese-but when radars were improved, even small songbirds turned up as targets. They were such a nuisance on radarscopes that M.I.T. scientists worked out an electronic circuit to make radars blind...
Evidence presented by a University ornithologist has somewhat substantiated the Federal Aviation Agency's theory that a flock of starlings, sucked into the engine on take-off, caused the Eastern Airlines Electra to crash Tuesday night at Logan International Airport, killing 61 persons...