Word: otterness
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...middle-aged London accountant named Graham Merrill (Bill Travers) buys an otter to keep it from becoming a captive circus performer. Given his freedom, the animal returns the favor by wrecking Merrill's city flat and showing him that happiness is a cottage in Scotland. Merrill blithely quits his insurance job, hies to the highlands and begins a life of happy isolation. Even in children's films, a man cannot drift for long before a pair of pretty eyes begin blinking like a lighthouse. Here they belong to Virginia Mc-Kenna-Mrs. Travers in real life...
...warm pens to recover. Of the more than 500 birds brought in by week's end, two-thirds had survived. The fouled waters threatened thousands of rookeries on the Santa Barbara Islands, haven for the sea elephant, the Guadalupe fur seal (once thought extinct) and the rare sea otter...
Mission control proclaims a perfect launching for Apollo 11, the first successful attempt to put three men and a diabetic otter in orbit around the moon. Rhody McCoy throws his hat into the New York Mayoralty race...
...prototype can seat 64, a tremendous advantage over its STOL and V/STOL rivals for interurban hops. The closest runner-up, Germany's Dornier Skyservant, seats only twelve; other STOL-type planes that have begun to enter the U.S. air-taxi/commuter business, like Canada's De Havilland Otter and the Helio Courier, have only a fraction of McDonnell Douglas' payload. Fully loaded, the plane can cruise at 250 m.p.h., land at speeds as slow as 55 m.p.h. on a 500-ft. runway; it can take off within 1,000 ft. (one-seventh the length of La Guardia...
Does the woman who purchases an exotic fur coat realize that one day she may wear the last sea otter, Somali leopard, cheetah, or any one of innumerable other mammals unfortunate enough to have a pelt sought by the fur trade...