Word: pigeon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Bird lovers are notorious worriers; they worry, among other things, about hunters, egg collectors and cats. Now they have a new worry: radar. In Germany last week, they were blaming radar for leading wild birds and homing pigeons astray. During a recent race of 8,000 British pigeons, nearly all of the contestants disappeared on a 210-mile course between Wales and Northern Ireland. Such "catastrophe flights" are normally blamed on bad weather, but the German ornithologists say that they are commoner now than they used to be. A pigeon race near Karlsruhe lost...
Many ornithologists and pigeon breeders believe that radars, which are increasing in Europe both in numbers and power, interfere in some unknown way with the mysterious directional sense that guides birds. Some of them report seeing migrating wild ducks enter the field of a powerful radar, wheel in confusion and fly south instead of north...
...rapid sequence the camera scans the seven leading personalities and their reactions to the president's death. The Playboy Financier (Louis Calhern) dabbles in bonds and women from the Stork Club, the Trusted Vice-President (Walter Pigeon) looks faithful, the Hearty Sales Manager (Paul Douglas) learns of the death in his secretary's apartment, and the Dead Man's former Mistress (Barbara Stanwyck) tears her hair. Only Frederick March, as the scheming comptroller who wants the presidency, has the time and the talent to develop his role...
...Fishy Work Boat. When Williams tried to check into the financial records at the highway's headquarters on Pigeon Key, he was told by Toll District General Manager Brooks Bateman that "nobody's going to see [the books]." Williams became more suspicious when he noticed that the district's "work boat" was actually a cruiser equipped with fishing chairs, outriggers and a sportsman's flying bridge. He also noticed a large highway-owned swimming pool, which had been "built for the benefit of the public" but never opened because officials later found that "state insurance regulations...
...buildings to house city, state and Federal Government agencies now spread around the city; a 20,000-student branch of the University of Illinois; 5,000 apartments, a 6,000-auto parking area and a $15 million central-heating plant. Marked for destruction are such grey granite landmarks as pigeon-splattered city hall and the federal courthouse, to be replaced by small parks. Of 513 buildings in the main project area north of the winding Chicago River, only ten, including the huge Merchandise Mart and the American Medical Association headquarters, are classified as in "good" condition...