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Wellesley police were baffied yesterday by the mystery shrouding the disappearance of a stuffed owl, from a Wellesley hall, latest in a long line of missing persons. The Owl was last seen at a mixer there last Saturday night...
...rain, a picket line of antiCommunist Czechs marched-as they had marched when Prochazka arrived in New York (TIME, Aug. 20)-carrying such signs as, "How dare you come to a free country with blood dripping from your hands?" Prochazka, a tough, doctrinaire Communist behind his mild, owl-eyed front, was with the President five minutes. The dialogue was described later by White House Press Chief Joe Short (who got it from the President...
Fowl Play. In Spokane, after Dennis Williams set up a stuffed owl on the roof, the cooing pigeons which had been harassing him nightly moved out and two live, hooting owls moved...
...facsimile of a snowhouse, how to catch a seal (wriggle up to it, crawfish-style, pretending to be a seal yourself), and how to alleviate snow blindness by a few searing drops of kerosene in the eyes. He accustomed himself to the Eskimo menu, even to such delicacies as owl meat, scorpionfish liver, frozen raw fish, warm blood, seal guts braided with blubber. Like any true man of the Arctic, he became devoted to his Huskies, in whom he found a "sympathy and tenderness that many humans might envy." And he learned not to underestimate his native competitors, the shamans...
...large, M-G-M heroes are not famed for taking sides on hot political issues. Sutherland's owl, however, is made of stern stuff. By insisting in Fresh Laid Plans on exposing a community of farming chickens to the rigors of Fair Dealing price control, farm subsidies and other bureaucratic gimmicks, he landed the chickens in the soup and M-G-M spang in the center of the hottest political controversy in the farm belt...