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Sanctuary. In Atlanta, an injured pigeon with its tail feathers gone and right side badly mangled interrupted its homeward flight long enough to alight on the lawn of the S.P.C.A. for repairs...
...stood up and shouted "I advise him of his constitutional right to refuse." Judge Medina stonily intoned "I repeat my direction." Gates was defiant: "I would have to bow my head in shame and I could never raise my head in decent society if I ever became a stool pigeon. Even under the court's direction...
...sight. He told her, cautiously, that she was too good for him. He divulged his past: he had gone to Spain after a boyhood near Bridgeport, Conn., had married, fathered four children, deserted his wife, fought for Franco, and ended up in Gibraltar as a police stool pigeon. He had spent five months in jail (for theft) after landing back in the U.S. in 1946. He finally admitted that he preyed on women...
Then came the climactic announcement of secession from the civilized world and the release of the "Ceremonial Dove"--apparently a plain Yard pigeon--which was countered by release of several dozen balloons and a great deal of water from Adams House...
...party, we try to go back to the 19th Century, or even to the 1920s, you can bury the Republican Party as the deadest pigeon in the country . . . What we ought to do is to stop bellyaching about the past . . . and start making it everlastingly clear to the country where we stand...