Word: pigeoning
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...includes onetime Member Pablo Picasso's sketch of the dove that became the familiar peace emblem. "Picasso said he didn't have enough time to think up a symbol," Langignon recalls. Suddenly French Communist Writer Louis Aragon reached into Picasso's cluttered folder, picked up a lithograph of a pigeon, and said, "Why don't you use this?" Langignon...
...Ehrlichs should have spent more time developing this theme of the esthetics of life for our kin. Photos of extinct species, like the once-most numerous bird, the passenger pigeon, and of others now vanishing would appeal to the altruistic feelings of the reader. Yet the written examples create remarkable images and inspire compassion. Too bad James G. Watt will probably never see them...
Should man follow the dodo and the passenger pigeon into extinction, who will inherit the earth? Faced with that gloomy question, most futurists and even some zoologists tend toward the whimsical: late-late-show killer ants, say, or playful monsters that put one in mind of Lewis Carroll's frumious Bandersnatch...
...birth. From Philadelphia in 1793, George Washington wrote out a note in English for Jean Pierre Blanchard so that the French balloonist, on his pioneering flight over the Delaware River, would not panic the New Jersey natives. Thomas Jefferson benefited from early airmail in 1803: a carrier pigeon flew from New York to Washington bearing the good news that Napoleon had agreed to the Louisiana Purchase. Teddy Roosevelt was the first occupant of the White House to fly, even though he was no longer President when he did so. After some difficulty getting through the wires supporting the wings...
...have been produced in Michigan since 1925, but oil experts are reluctant to speculate about how much production is likely to increase in the years ahead. Nonetheless, big multinational oil companies, such as Shell and Standard Oil of Indiana, which have virtually carpeted the more than 80,000-acre Pigeon River Country State