Word: pigeoning
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...true enough that the passenger pigeon has been hunted to extinction (the last bird of that unfortunate species died in a Cincinnati zoo in 1914), and the only buffalo most people see are on well-worn nickels. But even so, never in U.S. history has game been as bountiful-or as varied-as it is right now. As the 1967 fall season got under way last week, the U.S. Bureau of Sport Fisheries and Wildlife offered the welcome news that no fewer than 8,500,000 mallard ducks will take to the flyways this year. For those with a palate...
...throughout was punctuated with flashes of eerie light and sound effects of thunder, lightning, sirens, whistles and whooshing jets. Exclaimed Big Foot at the close: "We sprinkle the rice powder of angels on the soiled bed sheets and turn the mattresses through blackberry bushes! And with all power the pigeon flocks dash into the rifle bullets! And in all bombed houses, the keys turn twice around in the locks...
...playing and winning is playing and losing. The main thing is the play." But the incentives are hard to separate. Behaviorist psychologists believe that what keeps people gambling is "intermittent reinforcement"-a regular expectation of winning. Says Harvard's B. F. Skinner: "I could arrange for a rat, pigeon or monkey to get hooked on gambling simply by providing a certain schedule of rewards or payoffs...
According to an Arizona podiatrist named Wendell W. Rote Jr., all the best sprinters are pigeontoed. Dr. Rote claims to have done considerable re earch in the subject. "It's simply a matter of physics," he explains. "Those who are pigeon-toed generate a line of thrust which is directly forward. They are 100% efficient in utilizing the power in their legs...
...much for science. Texas Southern's Jim Hines, 20, is not the least bit pigeon-toed-in fact, he's just a little duck-footed, and it may be a good thing. If he were 100% efficient, there is no telling how fast he could run. Three times last winter Hines tied the indoor world record of 5.9 sec. in the 60-yd. dash. Last month, in the 100-yd. dash at Houston's Southwestern Athletic Conference meet, he got off to a so-so start, still was timed in 9.1 sec.-equaling the world record...