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...their mascot-to be licensed for everything from tote bags and T shirts to coffee mugs and lobster bibs. The Moscow Olympics had a bear, the 1984 Los Angeles Games have a bald eagle, and for the 1984 Louisiana World Exposition, the city fathers of New Orleans picked a pelican. Last week the bird showed up at a Louisiana-sponsored State Department reception, to the amusement of Secretary of State George Shultz, 62. Perhaps his department needs a mascot too. How about a giraffe (elegant, with no voice of its own), a penguin (always in formal dress) or Dr. Dolittle...
...riding in the cockpit with the pilot. Once in Florida, the robin was greeted by members of the Fort Myers Nature Center, who made sure that it was healthy enough to be set free. "We've done this before," shrugs Delta Spokesman Bill Berry. "Once it was a pelican with a sore neck. He had to keep his head out of the box, and every time the flight attendant passed, he tried to pinch...
...plumage: the sugarbird or bananaquit; eight varieties of tern, one known as kill-'em-Polly; five endemic warblers, one called Betsey-kick-up or Mary-shake-well; the common stilt or crackpot soldier; the mangrove cuckoo or 4 o'clock bird; the magnificent frigate, and the brown pelican, with its beak holding more than its belican...
Best Editorial Cartoons series edited by Charles Brooks (Pelican; $4.95). Pen-and-ink parodies of foreign leaders, including Brezhnev...
...girl to whom Jack must succumb even though he pursues his bachelor freedom across all of Europe in a touring car? She must be as delectable as strawberries and cream, a muse of delight, Goethe's "eternal feminine" luring men on. Sachs makes her predatory, poised like a pelican about to dive-bomb a poor fish. And Philip Bosco as the Devil displays an unctuous complacency that defeats the role...