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Fairfield's citizens blew whistles, banged pots and rang cowbells to shoo the flocks. The starlings stayed. Aerial explosives failed to scare them off. A captured starling, rumor has it, was strangled, his death squeals recorded, and the tape played over loudspeakers. The birds were only briefly gulled...
With all the new snow on the ground, wouldn't you rather be skiing? Rumor has it that the Harvard Entrepreneur Club is considering chartering a bus to escort students in Fine Arts 175a direct from their final on Friday afternoon to the slopes in Vermont. Night skiing, anyone...
...Pope abdicate? During John Paul II's slow recovery from his shooting last summer, the rumor circulated in Europe that he was thinking of stepping down. That was hardly credible, but there is no doubt that he was a frustrated patient. So much so, TIME has learned, that at a critical juncture he stepped into the medical management of his case and overruled advice from a panel of his doctors...
...News hasn't even been able to profit as much from the boom in sports coverage. Because it comes out in the morning, the paper is locked into a format that features mostly game stories rather than the analysis, inside dope and rumor-mongering that pervades the Post. The only big success the News has had recently is its rather pathetic imitation of the Post's "Wingo" called "Zingo." "Zingo" has added 100,000 to the circulation, putting the News back to 1,483,333 everyday, but that is still nearly 450,000 below the 1976 level...
...future looks bleak for the News. current rumor has it that it would cost the Tribune company $85 million to close down the paper and pay off its employees, while it would take $60 million to renovate the product for the long haul. But those numbers distort the picture. The News is written for part of New York that, while still huge by almost any standard, is shrinking; and American business does not stay in the games when the prizes keep getting smaller. Sooner or later, and probably earlier than most expect, the Daily News will join the Brooklyn Dodgers...