Word: grounded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...with tribalism rather well?notably Kenya, where Jomo Kenyatta, the charismatic Kikuyu, is so surely in the saddle that he long seeded his government with other tribes and allowed Kenya a two-party system. Unfortunately, Jomo has just banished the opposition party from the current local elections on the ground that its candidates filed the wrong papers...
...site; the U.S. pavilion's balloon design was to have been echoed by surrounding pavilions, notably those of France and Japan. American Architects Sam Brody and Lewis Davis, working with Tange, designed the experimental complex. "Until now," says Brody, "air structures have been rather lumpish affairs on the ground. We wanted to introduce the airborne silhouette...
Equipped with auxiliary breathing or gans,* the 2-ft. fish can live out of water for hours and can propel itself along the ground on its stubby but muscular pectoral fins. It was introduced by a fish farmer several years ago near Fort Lauderdale, and quickly infiltrated the state's broad, interconnected drainage system. When scattered specimens began appearing in the canals and ponds of Palm Beach County in 1967, they were largely ignored. But this spring, astounded Fort Lauderdale residents discovered catfish scuttling across their lawns at night and the Florida Game and Fresh Water Fish Commission assigned...
...cylinder, 100-h.p. entry will resemble a sawed-off Mustang and have a semi-fastback roof-line that will make it sportier than the Volkswagen, Japan's Toyota, and other leading low-priced imports. The car is currently being test-run at the company's proving ground in suburban Dearborn. Code-named "the Delta," it is considerably longer (176 in. to 159 in.) than the Volkswagen, but does not stand quite as high (53 in. to 59 in,). It will get about 22 miles to a gallon of gasoline. Ford hopes to keep the cost under...
...even participated in last summer's drag-out battle for the TWA billings. Moreover, only nine months ago, blonde, fortyish Mary Wells, the agency's president and cofounder, married Harding Lawrence, chairman of Braniff Airways, whose $6,500,000 account had taken her struggling outfit off the ground...