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...which the female nibbles provocatively on her mate's neck. Soon there was a new egg in the roost. At the zoo, Bird Curator Arthur Risser and his crew eagerly monitored the incubation. Two weeks ago, one egg showed signs of movement. Subsequently, a chick managed to peck a peanut-size hole in the shell. Like mother condors in the wild, the zoo staffers tapped on the eggshell. When the chick's strength seemed almost sapped from its struggle to free itself, Keeper Cyndi Kuehler cut an opening to let the chick emerge...
...centers of the art world. González painted, mostly awkward imitations of Puvis de Chavannes. He drew, with ability. He turned his metalworker's hand to making hammered copper masks. This went on through the teens and '20s. In short, González took longer to peck his way out of the egg than any modern artist of comparable stature, and what cracked the shell and released him was his relationship to his fellow Spaniard in Paris, Picasso...
...colleague: "People often find him boorish and obnoxious." Admits Donaldson: "I cause myself a lot of trouble with my deportment, and I am less than thrilled about that." Yet Donaldson seems a mascot rather than an outcast among the White House-beat regulars. They are used to his Peck's Bad Boy manner and enjoy his outbursts against the White House staff for manipulating access to the President, though some reporters blame his antics for the recent ban on asking questions during "photo opportunities." With few exceptions, colleagues praise Donaldson for his nerve and enterprise. Says an NBC competitor...
...town meeting began exactly at 8 p.m. in the dimly lighted white clapboard auditorium overlooking Port Stanley's harbor. In the chair was Councilor Terry Peck, 45, an earnest, stocky plumber and former police chief who dutifully jotted notes on the proceedings. But the residents of the tiny capital (pop. 1,050) of the Falkland Islands were not getting together simply to discuss the local issues that bedevil most small communities. One man asked when the town gym, which is now occupied by British soldiers, would be open to the public again. Another grumbled about the military trucks that...
...sang like a frog and played his ever present ukulele like a hunt-and-peck typist. He talked with his mouth full and tossed aside his script to ad-lib whatever came into his head. He had no talent but folksiness. For Arthur Godfrey, that was enough. At his peak in the 1950s he was, after President Eisenhower, perhaps the best-loved man in America. Godfrey's daily radio show and two weekly TV shows on CBS brought the network as much as 12% of its total revenue. Said CBS Chairman William Paley of Godfrey in his heyday...