Word: falcon
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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With the credit restored (and retroactive to March 10), hopes are high for a surge in sales. Pan American, U.S. distributor of France's Dassault-built Falcon, has shown its faith by signing up for 200 Falcons to date-and, says Business Jets Division Consultant David A. Anderton, "that's how many we intend to sell." Equally confident is Grumman, whose new Gulfstream II has logged 75 orders even before its first scheduled delivery, later this summer...
ROBERT SCOTT AND THE RACE FOR THE SOUTH POLE (ABC, 8:30-9:30 p.m.). Filmed on location in Antarctica, a re-creation of Captain Robert Falcon Scott's epic and ill-fated journey to the South Pole...
Advanced work on electric cars still centers around cheaper, more powerful batteries. General Motors, for example, is continuing work on high-capacity silver-zinc batteries, though they are still inordinately expensive. Ford has designed a sodium-sulphur battery that could drive a Falcon-sized car up to 130 miles at 50 m.p.h. Scientists agree that a production car using a version of either battery is still five to ten years...
...tourist attractions and because of acts of vicious vandalism (two boys killed 10,000 in Carter Cave, Kentucky, pulling them off the ceiling and trampling them to death). The Florida alligators are on the decline because of com mercial poachers; the Atlantic sturgeon because of polluted waters; the peregrine falcon because of farmers' pesticides; the dusky seaside sparrow because of the mosquito-control program at Cape Kennedy...
...most basic drives: the hunger for knowledge, the lure of every new frontier, the challenge of the impossible. And that is the legacy left behind by Virgil Grissom, Edward White and Roger Chaffee- just as it was by men like Marco Polo, Magellan, Charles A. Lindbergh and Explorer Robert Falcon Scott, whose Antarctic memorial bears an inscription from Tennyson's Ulysses: "To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield...