Word: roost
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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CERN will rule the roost in high-energy physics until the 30-Bev machine at Brookhaven National Laboratory goes into operation next year. It may be tops even then; Dutch-born Professor Cornelius Bakker, CERN's director, thinks that his machine can be revved up to Brookhaven's energy...
...feel," says Singer Diahann Carroll, "like I'm kind of at the bottom of the top; the best part of the beginning is now." Farther up the ladder roost more gaudily plumed stars of Singer Carroll's spotlighted world-Lena Home, Ella Fitzgerald, Harry Belafonte. That last rung of the climb is sometimes the trickiest, as countless slipped disks will testify. But when she moved into the Persian Room of Manhattan's Plaza Hotel last week, Diahann trailed the kind of notices no new female singer has received in years. Twice each night she demonstrated...
...Central in the confusion is an arbitrary, irrelevant division of space programs into "civilian" (Glennan's NASA) and "military" (Johnson's ARPA). Coordination between the two domains is supposedly achieved by the Civilian-Military Liaison Committee, the real purpose of which seems to be to provide a roost for amiable, ineffectual William M. Holaday, who was head of the abolished guided missiles office. But that basic split-up is only the beginning: assorted segments of the U.S. space effort belong to the Air Force, Army and Navy. Crisscrossing all the civilian and military groups is a misbegotten organizational...
...hibernating habits of the big brown bat, who sleeps through the cold months in one wing of the Museum of Natural History. One of the joys of nature study, Kieran's book makes clear, is the fellowship of amateur and professional; most of the professionals in town roost, like the bats, at the museum...
...Return. "Fraud," cried scientists. The bird man works at twilight, and that is when starlings go home to roost anyway. Also, the starlings were back next day. Very interesting, said the bird man, but these things take time. And had the scientists seen his credentials? In Indianapolis, for instance, where everything from klaxon horns to electric cords had been used to keep starlings from roosting at the U.S. courthouse and post office building, the bird man turned up last January. He spent a few hours on the courthouse roof, dangling what seemed to be a silver rope over the ledges...