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...animals in the Friuli region of northeastern Italy inexplicably went berserk. Dogs began barking and howling, cats ran into the streets, and hens refused to roost. Mice and rats scurried out of their hiding places and ran in circles. Horses and cows fidgeted in their stalls. Pet birds flapped their wings and emitted agonizing calls, almost as if they sensed what was about to occur. At 9 o'clock that night, the Friuli area was jolted by a major earthquake...
Swallows return to Capistrano, and pigeons come home to roost. Even lemmings find something of a home on the wrong side of the seaside cliffs from which they like to dive. But for governors of Massachusetts, it seems, the only place to head after the end of a term is Harvard--and so that is what Michael S. Dukakis has done...
This summer a new group called the Cambridge Acting Company has taken roost at the Pudding for the summer; it's an arrangement that will surely be very profitable for the Pudding, but maybe not so profitable for the Pudding, but maybe not so profitable for the ensemble, which drew only 25 or 30 hardy souls to a recent performance of its current selection. The low attendance is a shame, because even if the play--Frank Gilroy's Pulitzer Prize-winning The Subject Was Roses -- is pretty poor, it's still the best piece of theater to cross the Pudding...
...Bingham roundtripper, his second in two games, was a little less influential than his three-run poke against UMass (it came in the ninth to make the score 5-0), but not without a certain amount of clout, as it finally came to roost about twenty feet past the right field snow fence at Briggs Field...
Harold's Club is offering $100 for the best idea to rid the sign permanently of pigeons. Among the proposals received so far: 1) Make the roost untenable with axle grease or spikes. 2) Blow the birds off with blasts of compressed air. 3) Talk them into moving elsewhere. (This one came from a man who claims that he knows how to converse with pigeons. He asked for no salary, just free room and board until he gets the job done.) 4) Frighten the birds away with rubber rattlesnakes, fake owls or a yowling mechanical cat-with a dead...