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...Sunday at Ascutney, Robin Barnes tied for first and Ellie Waterston placed third in a two run slalom to give Radcliffe the title for the two-day meet...
Racing for the first time this season, the team placed three of its skiiers in the top ten positions. Ellie Waterston was first; Robin Barnes placed third after Anita Wollner of Cornell. Another Radcliffe skier, Ginny Storrs, finished sixth...
Miss Barnes also won first place at a WISC Slalom Race held at Intervale mountain, the day before. This race was conducted on an individual, not a team basis. Miss Barnes's time was 95.4 sec.; the next best Radcliffe time was turned in by the famous Miss Waterston, who finished third with...
...same mating place year after year. Would these return? As bird lovers waited, the first report came on April 18: the male was back; three days later, the female followed. The ornithologists were ready. In a campaign that rivals the efforts to protect North America's whooping crane, Waterston and his aides strung barbed wire around the base of the tree, planted the vicinity with booby traps, built an observation post with a covered approach. Relays of guards kept 24-hour watch, helped at night by a parabolic microphone so sensitive that they could hear the female panting...
...until the middle of June, when the young were safely hatched, did Waterston tell his proud secret. By then the young birds were almost as big as squabs on their diet of a pound of fish daily, and the written record of their family life filled 1,250 pages. Next year, if all goes well, there will be more osprey families on bonny Scotland's barbed-wire braes...