Word: gulping
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Rhino! is a brilliantly scenic, instructive, timely and entertaining tale of African adventure. The hero (Robert Gulp) is a zoologist who dedicates his skills to the preservation of African wildlife; the villain (Harry Guardino) is a poacher who devotes his energies to their annihilation. Told that the villain is an excellent guide, the hero in all innocence hires him to hunt down a pair of rare white rhinos and transport them to a game preserve, where they may safely multiply. The villain, of course, secretly intends to make off with the hero's pharmic rifle, a device that fires...
...orange juice, for example, produces an alkaline reaction in the stomach. Some drinkers avoid highballs with a soda mix, claiming that the carbon dioxide that turns the stuff fizzy also turns their stomachs acid. Contrariwise, others take a glass of plain soda to settle their acid stomachs. Many sufferers gulp black coffee, which actually stimulates an empty stomach to produce more acid, and may be irritating; coffee with cream is "buffered...
Died. William Pettus Hobby, 86, onetime Governor of Texas (1917-1921), longtime chairman of the Houston Post and husband of Oveta Gulp Hobby, Ike's first Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare, who gave his state women's suffrage and its first oil conservation laws, then rode off to the newspaper wars, supervising the Post's rise as one of Texas' most informative and widely read newspapers (circ. 224,-649); in Houston...
...brace of Eastern colleges with exceptional wrestling teams have taken on the affectionate nickname of the "Monster League"--whenever Harvard or almost any other Ivy League school runs into one of them in a match, the Ivy Leaguers get swallowed, practically in one gulp...
...Pratt-and-Whitney engines are as remarkable as its wings. The two turbojets have intakes six feet in diameter that gulp enormous amounts of the thin air at high altitudes. Lightened by liberal use of titanium, the engines have hollow turbine blades made of porous material. Air or some other gas forced through the pores keeps the blades from softening, despite the fact that fuel is burned at far higher temperatures than can be tolerated by most engines. The higher temperature yields several thousand more pounds of thrust without added cost in fuel...