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...such TV series as Flipper and Daktari has made animals his livestock in trade (TIME, June 16), combines two supposedly potent ingredients into one wide-screen epic: The Dark Continent and the Wild West. In Africa, the world's champeen rodeo rider (Hugh O'Brian) and his Navaho sidekick come to Kenya to round up a bunch of wild beasts for an altruistic rancher (John Mills). Object: to create a meat source for the protein-poor Masai...
...Gamble. Havasu (the name means "blue water" in Navaho) lures newcomers with its sun (annual rainfall is a mere five inches), space, desert air and trout-filled lake, made to order for thousands of fishermen, campers, water skiers and motorboat racers. It was the lake that caught the fancy of McCulloch Oil President Robert Paxton McCulloch, now 56, when he first flew over it in 1958. McCulloch, who is also the world's largest manufacturer of chain saws and No. 3 maker of outboard motors, was searching for a freshwater site on which to test his engines. After buying...
...claim, Peking was deliberately vague. The Chinese ideograms for a rocket translate as "fire arrow," but Peking's English translator rendered them as "guided missile." In Western terms, a guided missile is an anachronism: one of those winged, jet-propelled vehicles, like the Snark and the Navaho, that American aerospace companies were working on before the ballistic missiles like Minuteman and Titan were developed in the late 1950s. Some Western sources think the Chinese used a copy of the Russian SS-4 missile, a true rocket propelled by liquid fuel and capable of carrying a miniaturized nuclear warhead...
Died. Charles Von Fremd, 40, CBS newscaster, who reported on Washington from 1953 to 1957 when he shifted his beat to space, covering nearly every mission from the first Navaho rocket firings to last December's Gemini space rendezvous; apparently of a heart attack; in Bethesda...
Judy Norman and Gary Rosenblatt '66 worked with the Navaho and Pueblo near Gallop, New Mexico--dry, mountainous country, sparsely populated by Indians and sheep. Along with Navaho college students they ran daytime recreation programs for children and helped staff a community center. One recreation program almost overpowered the two volunteers with its success. When 120 high-spirited Zuni-Pueblo turned up for games, the volunteers blanched but carried on bravely...