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...cause of the commotion was the appearance of a single squat, unassuming, pigeon-like bird called a Ross's gull, which is almost never seen south of the Arctic Circle, and never before in the continental U.S. It was indeed present and, as if on cue, put on a show for the hundreds of bird watchers by feeding three times each day with a flock of Bonaparte's gulls (named after Charles Lucien Bonaparte, an ornithologist and a nephew of Napoleon) making their accustomed annual visit...
...charcoal gray suits. The newcomers, skittish and self-conscious at first, soon relax as they sense that they are not alone. Hardly anyone reads to kill time. Conversation is minimal and muted. Children accompanying their parents are subdued. Veteran standers-in-line are spotted easily: every few minutes they squat and flex their knees to relieve the physical and mental strain. Scuffles and raised voices are rare, but they have happened when someone tries to jump the line. "Sometimes a lady will faint," says Bill Peters, 34, the office manager, "but in all my time here [18 months...
...hope you're not looking for glamour," Richard Tucker once warned a reporter, "because I'm just not the glamorous type." Short, squat and built like a football lineman, Tucker hardly suggested Rodolfo. Not that it mattered. A ringing, luminous sound, fueled by Tucker's majestic belief in both music and the voice he felt that God had given him, was embellishment enough for the legions of operagoers who came year after year to hear Verdi and Puccini melt in his mouth...
...thinking big, some 9 million additional acres in New York and Vermont, as Ganienkeh-the Land of the Flint, an independent Indian nation. Since then, to the frustration of state authorities and the growing anxiety of Big Moose's white settlers, the Indians have refused to budge. The squat-in is fast approaching a legal crunch, and TIME Cor respondent Don Sider recently visited the Indian camp. His report...
...marched 5,000 strong into biblical Judea and Samaria for a sitdown strike. The Israeli army managed to hold back all but about 300. One group of religious youths, led by Rabbi Moshe Levinger, made their way into a 500-ft. gorge beside an old Turkish aqueduct to squat there until the army or hunger forced them out. "It is our right as Jews to live here," said Rabbi Levinger. "No secular govern ment has the right to give away what the Torah has said is ours...