Word: pigeons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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TRIALS OF O'BRIEN (CBS, 8:30-9:30 p.m.). Roger (The Saint) Moore dates O'Brien's exwife, so O'Brien, the devil, sets him up as a pigeon to trap a killer...
...March morning in 1900, a small boy crouched along the bank of Ohio's Scioto River, sighted down the barrel of his BB gun, and sent a pellet smashing into the brain of a big red-breasted, blue-backed bird. It was the last wild passenger pigeon ever to be sighted. In this indignant, touching book, Allan W. Eckert, author of The Great Auk, details the wanton greed that extinguished this remarkable species and imagines a biography for the last wild survivor that died that morning on the Scioto...
...19th century America, nothing was more ordinary than the passenger pigeon, which numbered in the billions, and may have accounted for nearly 40% of the country's bird population. Each year they swept across the central and eastern U.S., from the Gulf Coast to Canada and back again in roaring migratory swarms that sometimes darkened the entire sky. They could fly for 20 hours on end with bursts of speed up to 90 miles an hour; yet it sometimes took three days for a flight to pass a given point...
...reporter in June. So was Onassis, in one sense, for the Prince enjoys a royal veto over S.B.M. decisions, and the tycoon's only recourse was to protest bitterly to Monaco's 18-man Parliament. He accused Rainier of cutting casino betting by 60% when he outlawed pigeon shooting several years ago (because Princess Grace vowed she couldn't bear the sight of dying birds littering the promenades). Onassis is willing to sell out, but his price is the current one of $17 a share, up from $4 in 1960. Since the company's profits...
Bathtub Arrival. With her small hands and feet, widely admired bosom and spikelike false eyelashes, Suzy has the look of a pouter pigeon. The twice-divorced and now unmarried Texan, whose real name is Aileen Mehle, stands out at any party. She never misses a thing, she boasts, because of her powers of total recall. "I have the fastest eye in the house." But she never takes what she sees very seriously. "Social ites," she says, "kid each other, their way of life, their friends; and I kid the whole setup...