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...attempt to soothe man and bird alike, the Navy is creating an airport for albatrosses on the nearby, nonstrategic island of Kure, hopes to build up the small albatross population there (current count: 700). Fortnight ago Navy bulldozers cut a series of 50-ft. swaths through the brush to make special gooney runways. But last week, at the peak of their mating season, the gooneys again defied the U.S. Navy. As ornithologists had predicted, not one winged off to the new, man-made sanctuary...
...Honolulu traffic conference, the 90 airlines from 50 nations who belong to IATA could not agree on any general scheme of fare reductions on world air routes. The international rate-setting conference broke up in failure, and the stage was set for a rate war when the current air-fare agreement runs...
Criticizing the present system of legal education, Griswold asserted, "What we ought to be teaching is how to go about attacking and resolving new problems, not the specific details about a vast number of problems which happen to be current now." Students, he warned, should realize "that we are not teaching them everything about everything...
...crippled, morbidly shy young girl he had been invited there to meet. Trying to interest him in the collection of little glass animals that is her only solace, she offers him her favorite, saying, "Here's an example of one, if you care to see it." In the current H.D.C. production, she takes at this moment a quick, frightened, intensely poignant glance at him, to see if he will condescend to look at the glass unicorn she treasures so. Both to the interpreting mind and the receiving heart, the glance means more than the line...
...among Tennessee Williams' major works, this one has no dominating masculine figure to bring it to an explosion of melodrama. "Because of its considerably delicate or tenuous material," the author says of it, "atmospheric touches and subtleties of direction play a particularly important part." John Hancock, who directed the current production, has worked scrupulously and to beautiful effect with everyone concerned...