Word: leggedness
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The Moon Walker was rejected by NASA, but it was not discarded by Aerojet. Rebuilt in a modified version, it has become the prototype of an eight-legged, walking wheelchair now being evaluated by the University of California at Los Angeles for the use of handicapped children. The boxy gadget...
Red-faced as they are at being No. 2, the B.A.C.-Sud combine's greater problems are in their own high-flying costs. Though the builders insist that the Concorde will be in service on schedule in May 1971, expensive engine and wing changes have had to be worked...
In the seventh, the Tigers pitched in again after Jim Tobin legged out a looping double. Bob Welz smacked a hard grounder that slipped under the glove of Princeton second baseman Jeff Perry, and Tobin scored easily.
Although he writes admiringly of the vast sums expended by Vanderbilts, Goulds and Morgans on yachts, castellated mansions, cotillions, fine libraries and blooded horses, Beebe concedes that for pure genius, nobody topped "Colonel" Ned Green, the spectacularly eccentric, wooden-legged, oversexed son of Hetty Green, the miserly "Witch of Wall...
There was something of the leaping lamb and the bounding colt in Christopher that first year. Not only did he hurdle car hoods (including a slow-moving cab one time in the Square), but he also leaped over whole rows of parking meting. On the way to dinner in the...