Word: extinctions
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...vanishing Americana is cause for nostalgia. Consider the speed trap, that once ubiquitous feature of Crossroads, U.S.A., now largely and mercifully extinct, the victim of interstate highways and perhaps even some slight evolution in civic if not human nature. One malignant exception to progress, however, is the southeastern Georgia town of Ludowici. Named after an immigrant German roofing-tile manufacturer who built a factory there at the turn of the century, it is one of the last remaining speed traps in the country. TIME Correspondent Joseph Kane drove slowly into Ludowici and sent back this report...
...have tamed and broken the bold spirit of these magnificent people, while molding them into submissiyeness, bears resemblance to the sin of taming all wild stallions to pull a plow and letting the eagle become extinct...
...Will someone explain to Gina Lollobrigida that when she buys a coat made from ten wild tiger pelts [Jan. 19], she simultaneously orders the deaths of ten living tigers to replace her purchase? Her argument that "I didn't kill anything; they were already dead," is as extinct as this beautiful animal will soon...
...hawk (Victus eternus), but differs in its diet, for the thrasher thrives on yellow-bellied land snatchers and pink-tufted dissenters (Marxis militanus). The thrasher is a close relative of the Baltimore hatchet wielder (Agnewus intim-idalus) and the rednecked robin (Thur-mondus segregatus), until recently thought to be extinct...