Word: pigeons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Detroit was a conservative place in the 1930s. All the auto companies, but mostly Ford, gained a sorry renown for the driving tactics of their harsh foremen and production speedups. The secret policeman, the stool pigeon and the scab nourished. When these tactics were protested by Ford's only son, Edsel, the old autocrat gradually withdrew from him, both professionally and personally, and gave increasing powers and recognition to his devious little chief of "internal security," Harry Bennett, a former sailor and sometime boxer...
...Fastest Human today is a junior at Florida A. & M. who rarely booms and never floats. A shifty cut-and-shoot halfback on A. & M.'s football team, Robert Hayes, 20, runs the 100 as if he were cracking an enemy line: head bobbing, shoulders rolling, so pigeon-toed that he often steps on his own feet-a painful experience when he is wearing half-inch-long track spikes. "Starts are my weakness," Hayes said before last week's A.A.U. championships in St. Louis. "I don't get my top speed until I've gone...
...camera wistfully observes that his chamber pot is filled with cobwebs. But he is proud. Whenever he leaves the house, he picks his teeth and smacks his lips, as though he had just finished a hearty meal. And one day he announces grandly: "In Old Castile I own a pigeon cote which if it were not in ruins would hold 200 pigeons if I had pigeons...
...Biology 120, live or freshly-killed specimens were often used where preserved ones would have been entirely satisfactory. Last semester no forethought had been taken about the method of killing pigeons for dissection. One instructor simply announced, "All right, if you want to dissect a pigeon, figure out some way to kill it." Some students soon hit upon the idea of squeezing the birds to death...
...haunted by visions of people he has cheated in his life. At times they sprawl all over his room, tormenting him so much he spills his soup and screams in agony. In the afternoon, when he is feeling almost amiable, he tosses some bread crumbs to a sickly pigeon. He runs out of crumbs, but the pigeon continues to stare at him with a baleful red eye. ''If I look at it long enough it will go away,'' the old man thinks. The pigeon pecks at his shoe. "Go away," the old man cries, kicking...