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...dashed frantically across the field toward a copse of birch and poplar. Thirty yards away, the great golden eagle launched itself from its master's gauntleted arm and swiftly closed the distance. The hare zigzagged desperately. No use. Flashing 20 ft. overhead, the eagle gave a sort of shrug and folded its wings. Legs rigid, it plummeted downward, driving its talons deep into the hare's skull, killing the animal instantly. Then, poised over its prey, 3-ft. wings spread in triumph, it shrieked impatiently for its master to hurry along with its reward: a tidbit of fresh...
...Shrug at Race. The people, in Malawi's case, consist of 4,000,000 blacks, 12,000 Asians and 7,000 whites. Though the whites hold the best civil service jobs and run the army and police force, race relations are harmonious. To complaints that blacks should be running more of the show, Banda only shrugs that they will-when they are skilled enough. "I will not Africanize," Banda said last week, "just for the sake of Africanization...
...Paris critics are slapping back. "Childish stamping," sniffed the weekly magazine Arts. "When Boulez did this kind of thing at 20, he was called a young brat that age would mature. At 30, we said he's a bit retarded but appealing. At 40, one can only shrug one's shoulders." In Le Combat, Critic Jean Hamon accused Boulez of trying to control France's musical development with "a dictatorship Boulezienne conceived on the immutable principle that 'no one has any talent except us and our friends.'" Concluded Hamon: "Goodbye, then, Herr Boulez. Return...
...situation, Gary Wilson faces the Army at a time when he is still suspended somewhere between the campus and full manhood (in his room at home, his Eagle Scout badges are hung on a wall not far from his plastic-encased draft notice). One moment he will shrug boyishly about his draft call, expected in July, as a "necessary evil." Then he will turn studiedly philosophical, frowning heavily and puffing on a Raleigh cigarette as he says: "Most students I know are more worried about actually going into the military than they are about what'll happen after they...
Most references to the war bring a doleful shrug or headshake. "Nobody feels he can do anything about it," said a Washingtonian, "so it comes out as a kind of reluctant support." Professional opinion samplers documented the confusion. A survey by social scientists from the University of Chicago and Stanford University found that most Americans still share a visceral instinct that the U.S. should not withdraw. How ever, said Western Pollster Don Muchmore, "there is a complete lack of belief that we can win. People wish we'd never gotten in, but say we've got to continue...