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...sternest test comes each winter when the great pinkfeet migrate from Iceland to roost in the wheat and potato fields of Lincolnshire. Considered Britain's ranking expert on wild geese, Thorpe has banded the pinkfoot for conservation, painted it on canvas, filmed it, shot 3,800 himself and instructed countless other guns−from the Queen Mother's private secretary to Actor Richard Todd−on the wily ways of "the loveliest bird that flies." The call of the pinkfoot, says Thorpe, is the most difficult to imitate. By recording the geese's ringing...
...mouse and a stripteaser. Goldberg constructed chains of causality that could be as illogical as life itself. A 1950 cartoon: "Truman (A) plays piano, knocking over bowl containing Amerasia secret papers (B)−fumes (C) overcome Republican Senator (D), who falls back, causing spoon (E) to toss surplus potato (F)−Joe Di-Maggio (G) swings, causing revolving mechanism (H) to set off leftover 4th of July rocket (I) which hits dice box (J), causing it to throw a natural−District Attorney (K) runs to investigate gambling, causing rope (L) to pull shirt (M) off taxpayer's back...
Owls by John Sparks and Tony Soper. 206 pages. Taplinger. $5.95. Chaucer saw them as messengers of death, Ophelia evoked them when going mad, potato chip ads exploit them, fairy tales celebrate their imagined wisdom. This compact book explores the history, habits and life-styles of owls (there are 133 kinds) in straitlaced prose, enhanced by excellent photos and drawings by Naturalist Robert Gillmor. For bird watchers who give a hoot...
...cooperatives McKnight referred to range from credit unions and handicraft shops to buyers' groups and sweet potato farms. Located in almost half of the southern states, they comprise a three year old, 116-member Federation of Southern Cooperatives, he said. Once-solid resistance from Southern whites has subsided partly, and, McKnight said, the cooperatives have now grown to a point where they are collectively worth over half a million dollars and claim over 3000 members...
Thugs and Hoodlums. The eggs began to fly even before the motorcade moved out to run the gauntlet between two walls of unfriendly citizens. Dozens of rocks were thrown, some the size of a potato. They bounced off the President's well-armored car, and they smashed windows in the press and staff buses trailing behind. One Secret Service agent, one newsman and one White House staff girl were injured, none seriously. Nixon's longtime secretary, Rose Mary Woods, who had been along in 1958 when the vice-presidential motorcade was mobbed and stoned in Venezuela, shouted: "Duck...