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...evolution and natural disaster, and are now extinct. But the most devastating killer has been man. Since 1600, when the first precise records were compiled, man has butchered creatures ranging from the abalone to the blue whale and the zebra. "During the past 150 years," says Ecologist Lee M. Talbot of the Smithsonian Institution, "the rate of extermination of mammals has increased 55-fold. If the killing goes on at this pace, in about 30 years all of the remaining 4,062 species of mammals will be gone...
...scholarly paper that German Zoologist Wolfgang Wickler presented at a scientific meeting in Tanzania last January dealt, among other subjects, with sexual fidelity in the animal world. For two members of the conference, Ecologist Lee Talbot and his biologist wife Martha, both of the Smithsonian Institution, his remarks were of more than academic interest. They provided an exciting clue that might well lead to control of the crown-of-thorns, the giant starfish that is literally eating away vital coral reefs in the Pacific (TIME, Sept...
...themselves about the stoppages. Such strikes account for 95% of all work stoppages in Britain, and last year cost the country 4,500,000 man-days. Whether Feather will be able to redeem his pledge is uncertain. In August, 1,300 blast-furnacemen at a steel plant in Port Talbot, Wales, ignored his efforts to end a three-week walkout that hammered steel output to a 17-month...
Many critics have tried to prove this proposition (the most famous of these is Robert Warshaw's essay "The Western" included in Dan Talbot's Film: An Anthology). Their reliance either on not calling a film a western merely because it does not fit a presupposition or on setting up as many as ten distinct types of westerns (the lone man western, the calvary western, the adult neurotic western, etc.) should be evidence in itself of the dubious quality of this theory. However, what concerns me more at this moment is the effect this idea has on filmmakers themselves...
...BEAST & THE LAND (NBC, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). A study of life on the Seren-geti-Mara plains of East Africa, one of the greatest remaining game reserves, where more than 1,000,000 animals roam free. Two Smithsonian Institution ecologists, Dr. and Mrs. Lee Talbot, guide the cameras, which single out the bedraggled and ungainly looking wildebeest as the most important animal on the plains...