Word: otters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...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...
...slaughter of the sea otter began in 1741 with a Russian exploratory expedition to the Commander Islands. Unfortunately, the sea otter's trusting nature aided in its destruction. These naturally tame animals would swim up to the small boats, only to be clubbed to death by hunters...
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...