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...early as 4 a.m. For sheer irritation, rats, raccoons, skunks, pigeons and possums are no match for the more than 150 wild peacocks that infest this otherwise tranquil, posh Southern California community. The flock -- often 30 to 40 birds roosting in a single tree -- descends from six Indian peafowl released on the Palos Verdes Peninsula...
Their presence has sparked a pitched battle between bird lovers and sleep lovers. Hoping to soothe ruffled feathers on all sides, the city council is willing to try behavior modification. Later this month, Iowa peafowl farmer Dennis Fett, who will collect $200 a day and expenses for his advice, will conduct seminars for frazzled residents on how they can cope with their troublesome flock. Then he will try to draw the birds, Pied Piper-style, to open parts of the city...
...endangered species. One story introduces a cheap carnival girl whose "act" requires her to spend all day being licked by a bat; another implicitly compares the hero's lickerish mother to a pleasure-loving lizard; a third likens the members of a platoon to an anteater, a peafowl, a civet cat and other zoo dwellers. To make so beastly a world bearable, an author should ensure that disgust is in his characters' minds and not in his own. At this Boyd does not invariably succeed. In the title story, for example, a G.I. in Saigon undresses...
...Athletics Owner Charles O. ("Call Me Charlie") Finley invoked his own brand of voodoo be fore his club took on the Detroit Tigers. Finley 1) rode around the bases on the back of a mule called Charlie O, 2) took possession of five monkeys, a doe, rabbits, pheasants and peafowl donated by admiring fans, and 3) produced a beauty queen to act as bat girl. The Athletics lost anyway...
Last Sunday Dr. Guthrie bade St. Marks good-by with a tour of its grounds, which date from 1660, when Peter Stuyvesant worshipped there, later to be buried in the churchyard, in which Rector Guthrie still later kept a pair of peafowl. Two Sundays ago in his sermon Dr. Guthrie paid his respects to Bishop William Thomas Manning with whom he had often clashed-"with him came the bigness of head that goes with new office"-and to the Episcopal Church into which he was born: "I don't know any church I could stand as well...