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California's peregrine falcons are rarer than giant condors. Only about a dozen of them have been sighted in the whole state. So when two fledglings hatched in a nest near the top of a sheer, 580-ft. rock on Morro Bay, neighborhood Bird Watchers Vernon Davy and his...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: Who Stole the Falcons? | 6/5/1972 | See Source »

Gallo was sighted at Umbertos Clam House in Manhattan's Little Italy on April 7 by a small-time racketeer who quickly spread the word. Most interested was Carmine ("Sonny Pinto") DeBiase, a soldier in the Mafia clan once headed by the late Vito Genovese. He recruited Phil ("Fat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: The Mobs Maneuver | 5/8/1972 | See Source »

He picked its bones clean in The Human Zoo. He burped. He sniffed the air. He sighted, just upwind, a shaggy touch-me-feel-me shambling along. He struck again. This latest book results - but it is a joyless killing.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Skin Game | 3/13/1972 | See Source »

Sadat went on to draw a ludicrous analogy between his bad luck and that of his predecessor ("May God rest his soul") in 1967. A month after the end of the Six-Day War, said Sadat, an Israeli armored brigade was sighted edging up to the Suez Canal in what...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EGYPT: Fog over Suez | 1/31/1972 | See Source »

Though there is satire on Arnolphe's attempt to dominate and mold Agnes in School for Wives, its theme is simpler and more universal: love conquers narrowness and selfish obsessions. Moliere's genius is in depicting a character who is the apotheosis of some short-sighted way of looking at...

Author: By Richard Bowker, | Title: School for Wives | 11/17/1971 | See Source »

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