Word: hawking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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White's Merlyn was born in the future, is getting younger as he lives backwards through time. Merlyn teaches through the magic of metamorphosis: he is continually changing the Wart into some animal or other. As a fish, the Wart learns self-preservation from a pike; as a hawk, he acquires courage. He gets a taste of the 20th century totalitarian state by spending time in an ant colony, whose anthem is Antland, Antland Over All. Almost by accident, he comes across Excalibur...
...built auto on the road: almost 3 ft. shorter (175¼ in. overall) than any Big Three car, 3 in. shorter than American Motors' Rambler, which has sold 104,677 cars this year. For customer appeal its design will have "a hint" of this year's Hawk sports car in its styling. For variety S.-P.'s "Model X" will come in four body styles, have a choice of V-8 or six-cylinder engines. Said President Harold Churchill: "I'm happy to see the Big Three coming out with cars so long...
...huge Titan was only one of a score of missiles whose power comes from the nation's biggest rocketmaker. Aerojet's "solid-propellant guys" were hard at work on the Navy's 1,500-mile Lockheed Polaris as well as a flock of deadly birds named Hawk, Sparrow, Bullpup, Genie. Last week Aerojet blasted off on two new projects involving several exciting new technologies...
...Norway as a thrall. Nobody knows that Ragnar is the boy's father, and Eric (Tony Curtis) loathes the old brute almost as much as he hates his half brother Einar (Kirk Douglas), who is Ragnar's legitimate son and heir. One day Eric flies his hawk at Einar's face, and the beast tears out one of his eyes-a scene that is especially effective in Technicolor. In reprisal, Eric is chained in a tidal pool to be eaten alive by crabs, but he calls on Odin, and the tide goes...
Sinker. In Burnet, Texas, Dave Hawk took a commanding lead in the state bass-fishing tournament, reached shore, was given a summons by a game warden for catching too many fish...