Word: martianize
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...Wash board. Looking like a small lady Martian in her white crash helmet and goggles, New Hampshire's round-cheeked, chunky Penny Pitou, 21, was the first skier to jab her poles into the snow and set off. Penny plummeted through the schuss, hit the bump at such a speed that she was forced to the washboard surface on the outside of the turn. For one frantic second, she tottered on one ski, then recovered control to flash home...
...world's greatest personal-publicity experts, Spain's Surrealist Salvador Dali, made his regular winter pilgrimage to Manhattan, managed to make sure that everybody knew of his arrival. Dressed in a gold leather space suit, Dali looked a trifle Martian while posing inside his latest brainchild, an "ovocipede," a transparent plastic sphere that rolls merrily along while its operator sits comfortably (says Dali) encapsulated. For newsmen, Dali climaxed his performance by letting the ovocipede get out of control, wound up sublimely supine...
...more fervent admirers of the pianist whose group is currently the hottest trio in jazz. Its leader is neither red-haired nor green-eyed-but the spell he casts on his faithful followers, including many a fellow jazzman, sometimes suggests the arrival of the first Martian from outer space...
Chain Reaction. In Bari, Italy, a passing transport plane accidentally dropped a mile of steel links on Giuseppe Patrono's olive orchard, started rumors of a Martian invasion...
...came time to return to earth, a 10-lb. push would separate a spaceship from its natural merry-go-round. Free of the little moon, it would have satellite velocity, 3,000 m.p.h. in the case of Deimos, so only a moderate additional push would free it from Martian gravitation and start it on the long voyage home...