Word: armadillo
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Suddenly and quietly, the giant armadillo that threw college administrators into confused indignance for some three years is dead--or at least half dead. The college faculties, among them Harvard's, had denounced the disclaimer affidavit provision in the government's student loan program as an "obnoxious" clause singling out educational institutions as special objects of suspicion...
...group is a kind of Kingston Quintet, doing a spread of folk songs. American and foreign. All five play the guitar, and beyond that they diversify into a variety of instruments that includes five-string banjo, recorder, autoharp, maracas, a ten-string South American charango made from an armadillo shell, and a Nigerian talking drum. Their style is controlled and relaxed, with faultless rhythm, but minus Michael and United Artists, they could be any good college group...
...entrance to the fair is the geodesic dome, a 78-ft.-high, aluminum, gold-anodized building based on the original design by Architect R. Buckminster Fuller, which resembles a giant, gilded armadillo shell and houses a kaleidoscope of scientific and technical exhibits. Across seven screens -which take up one-third of the interior wall space-flash keyed sets of color pictures of U.S. life (e.g., seven cities, seven college campuses, etc., accompanied by Russian commentary and musical score). This unique process was invented by Designer Charles Eames. Watching the thousands of colorful glimpses of the U.S. and its people...
...South America, giant sloths (Mylo-dons) as big as men survived long enough in the high wilds of Patagonia to be killed by ancient Indians. Their skins have been found in caves. A giant armadillo with a shell 12 ft. long was hunted too. The strange beasts reported by Indians living in Patagonia today may be giant sloths or armadillos that the ancient hunters missed...
...rich, beautiful and pushing 40 (determinedly ahead of her, with a 10-ft. pole), gives him good reason for alarm. In Paris she flutteres her feathers across the stage of the Folies-Bergere. In the south of France she becomes romantically involved with a Mediterranean matron-menace named Amadeo Armadillo, and in the Tyrol with an obnoxiously handsome Nazi named Putzi. In London Lady Gravell-Pitt, a flatulent and fraudulent old sandbarge, undertakes to direct Mame's entry into court society...