Word: pigeoning
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...Homing pigeons are in serious trouble. Many fanciers fear that some mysterious influence is confusing or destroying their famous homing instinct. Last week the Homing Pigeon Club of Tucson, Ariz, released 109 well-trained birds at Lordsburg, N. Mex. Club members expected at least 95 of them to find their way back the 135 miles to home lofts in Tucson, but only five birds made it. No one knows what happened to the other 104. Said Member Tracy Prater, onetime Army pigeoneer: "Every club has a 'smash' race once in a while, but that is nothing to explain...
...Birds Missing. One pigeon club in nearby Phoenix has stopped all racing because of heavy losses. In one 56-bird race, it lost all the birds. Another Phoenix club still races, but its losses are increasing distressingly. Some Arizona pigeon fanciers attribute their misfortunes to secret activities at White Sands (missile) Proving Ground...
...less than 100 back. Clubs in New Jersey, Pennsylvania, California and Colorado were reported as having the same experience. A New Jersey club retrieved only two birds out of a flight of 100. There are some trouble-free spots (e.g., Massachusetts), but Editor John A. Roberts of the Racing Pigeon Bulletin says that pigeons are in trouble in most of the world. English fanciers recently lost all but 100 of a 7,000-to-8,000 bird flight from the Channel Islands...
After broiling that tough old rooster, Governor J. Bracken Lee. in Utah's Republican gubernatorial primary, G.O.P. Nominee George Clyde seemed to have a tender pigeon in Democratic Candidate Lorenzo Clark Romney. But last week Bracken Lee, who still has a dedicated personal following, announced his candidacy as a write-in independent, a move sure to cut into Clyde's Republican vote next month. Result of the Republican split: Democrat Romney was transformed from dead pigeon into an ominous Utah sea gull...
...Rights? Then I will tell you . . . the right of an Englishman true-born and free to get his beer and baccy, his Java, bread and scrape, plum-and-apple, cut off the joint and choice of two veg . . . good things sent in plenty from heaven above but niggled into pigeon holes by charity charlies with scrag-end notions of that arithmetical dead loss and bad debt...