Word: ring
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Fleeting Smile. Summoning the defendants to stand shoulder to shoulder in the glass-walled dock, the Lord Chief Justice, Lord Parker, in quiet, emotionless tones condemned them to a total of 95 years in prison. Lord Parker dealt first with the ''directing mind" of the ring, jowly Gordon Lonsdale, 38-who smiled fleetingly when the judge described him as "clearly a professional spy." Lonsdale's true identity is still unknown, but he is certainly a Russian and a Soviet intelligence agent. His claim to be a Canadian taken to Finland by his mother...
...RING OF BRIGHT WATER (211 pp.)-Gavin Maxwell-Duffon...
...Amory (2) 3. Fate Is the Hunter, Gann (4) √ 4. The White Nile, Moorehead (7) 5. Japanese Inn, Statler (6) 6. The Waste Makers, Packard (3) 7. The Snake Has AH the Lines, Kerr (5) √ 8. Born Free, Adamson (8) 9. Profiles in Courage, Kennedy (9) 10. Ring of Bright Water, Maxwell - Position on last week's list...
Must the male ring dove bow when he coos while courting? And who cares? The answer to the first question is a qualified no. And one who cares is Joshua Wallman. the 17-year-old son of a Manhattan real estate man, whose interest in ring doves last week won him the top Westinghouse Science Scholarship, which is worth $7,500 in money and a great deal more in prestige...
With Lehrman's encouragement, Josh studied the ring dove, a small, brownish bird found only under domestication. A point of note about the male ring dove is that he inflates his esophagus (gullet) and bows when making his cooing sound before target females. Experts on animal behavior have assumed that the courting actions are all part of a single instinctive pattern fixed within the brain. When such a pattern is released, it must go through its full course-in this case, throat swelling, cooing and bowing...