Word: amphibianism
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...this week. Bach was in Bridgeport, Conn., making repairs on his plane when Foote called to discuss the possibility of a small story about Jonathan's success and its new deluxe edition. "He said he had a Grumman Widgeon and seemed delighted that I knew it was an amphibian," says Foote. As head of TIME'S Books section, Foote had chosen not to have Seagull reviewed when it first appeared. That small story, says Foote "was going to begin, 'Jonathan Livingston Seagull is at my throat again.' " But after a morning with Bach and his Widgeon...
...significance of Wakefield's discovery is that it may help solve a major evolutionary riddle: How did the webbed feet of the amphibians evolve from the paddle-shaped fins of their fish ancestors? Possibly his creature may be kin to a little (3-ft.-long) lizard-like amphibian called Ichthyostega, whose remains have been found in Greenland. The outward-pointing feet of Wakefield's find "demonstrate," he says, "a stage intermediate between the backward paddle of the ancestral fish and the forward-pointing foot of a four-limbed animal." To help settle that old scientific question, Wakefield...
...could all be transported back in time to the Amphibian Age, freshman Richard Baughman would be one of the few able to take it in stride. He leads a life very different from the ordinary mortal as he spends a large proportion of his daylight hours in water...
Some $2,500,000 worth of improvements have transformed the 1,600-ton 325-foot ship into a floating Elysium. Capable of 22 knots, mounting an amphibian Piaggio aircraft plus a landing craft, the yacht boasts a black-sweatered crew of 50 ("More than it needs to run a 40,000-ton tanker," says Onassis), two chefs, 42 extension phones, a bathtub that glitters with mosaic dolphins and flying fish and was copied from King Minos' palace at Knossos, and a swimming pool big enough to hold a Kennedy sloop...
...after Paleontologist Colbert's identification, the burden is on them to explain how a fresh-water amphibian swam through hundreds of miles of saltwater ocean to reach Antarctica and die at the bottom of a stream only 325 miles from the South Pole...