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...liberal Democratic dove among Ida ho's conservatives is a rara avis indeed. But Frank Forrester Church has al ways been something special. At 32, he was the youngest man in the U.S. Sen ate. Now 44, he has won a nationwide reputation as one of President Johnson's most adamant critics on Viet Nam. It is a posture that does not sit well with some Idahoans. He is also bucking a G.O.P. tide that seems certain to deliver the state to Nixon. Yet even his enemies concede that Church is likely to win a third term, defeating...
...Audrey does is great." Alfie, the jolly Cockney philanderer, had a fairly exotic collection of birds. So did the Cockney star of the movie, Michael Caine, 33, who has played the field with nearly every available actress and model in the show-business aviary. Now he has found a rara avis indeed: Swedish Starlet Camilla Sparv, 23. Caine turned up with Camilla in London's Leicester Square Theater for the premiere of Murderers' Row. They've been dating for four months now, but when a reporter innocently asked if he would be getting married, Caine blanched...
...author and the publisher-neither of whom had sought the assignment-and offered them exclusive access to information and key figures, hoping thereby to avoid "distortion and sensationalism" and produce a sober, low-key retelling of the events of Nov. 22, 1963. The book was to be a rara avis: a history that would be independent but would still carry the authorization of the Kennedys and require their approval before publication...
...cities have declared open war on pigeons and are winning. Cincinnati, where eleven city workers became ill, and one died, after cleaning out pigeon droppings from an abandoned water tower, has started strict enforcement of an anti-feeding ordinance. Fines up to $50 for violators have made the pigeon rara avis there. Authorities in Buffalo are also making a fight to the finish. They employ five fulltime exterminators, who trap pigeons wherever they can and unobtrusively kill them by wringing their necks. The exterminators are also crack marksmen and shoot pigeons downtown in the early morning...
...nest and feed very much as humans do, but at around the turn of the calendar every winter, they roost in icy swamps, deep forests, river and creek shores, arriving there usually in predawn darkness, armed with cameras, binoculars, telescopes, field guides and silence. They are a kind of rara avis whose purpose it is to count birds and species of birds, with the emphasis, of course, on the rara avis...