Word: armadillos
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...name suggests, the nine-banded armadillo is encased in nine bands of armorlike plate. When alarmed, it curls into a nearly impenetrable ball or jumps straight up into the air. It spends much of its time burrowing holes in the earth; after swallowing air to increase its buoyancy, it is at home in the water too. But the strange beast has an even more remarkable characteristic: it normally gives birth only to quadruplets...
...aptitude for multiple delivery was what brought the armadillo to the attention of University of Texas Biochemist Roger Williams. The tough, armor-plated animal offered him a chance to check the theory that there is something in a fertilized egg cell besides genes that influences an animal's inherited characteristics...
...latest ploy of the gun magazines is to involve the whole family. "I weaned my boys on armadillo shooting," began one article. "Teach 'Em Young, Teach 'Em Right," was the title of a Guns & Ammo piece, accompanied by an illustration of a three-year-old girl getting instructions in the use of a revolver. This family concern is reflected in advertising. "Easy as pie," says an ad in Gun World promoting hand loading. A comely matron is shown holding a plateful of cartridges as if it were a pie, while her three admiring daughters look on. "Today," continued...
...DROP OF ANOTHER HAT is a chatter-and-patter revue by two stage personalities, Michael Flanders and Donald Swann, who might have come through the looking glass. They guide their devotees through a wonderland of whimsy, where, among other things, a nearsighted armadillo falls in love with a tank...
...DROP OF ANOTHER HAT is a chatter-and-patter revue by two stage personalities, Michael Flanders and Donald Swann, who might have come through the looking glass. They lead their devotees through a wonderland of whimsy, where, among other things, a nearsighted armadillo falls in love with a tank...