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Your mention of the Indian climbing perch is interesting but inaccurate (TIME. Feb. 6). People, including scientists, ''know" why it wants to go overland as well as they know countless other facts about fauna...
When the water hole dries up, it is able to wriggle or "walk" overland to another body of water, is aided in doing this by unusually stiff, spiny pectoral fins...
...aloft. Not even a climbing perch (Anabas scandens) could have shinnied up 40 ft. A small, dark green fish with dusky bands, the climbing perch inhabits Far Eastern estuaries and rivers. It can wrap its pectoral fins around grass stems, drag itself long distances. Why it wants to go overland, no one knows...
...passed its fourth consecutive preferred dividend. He is living in his Fifth Avenue home in Manhattan, but the sojourn has been punctuated by many trips to Toledo where he stays at the Toledo Club and goes to his factory at 8 a. m., often remaining until midnight. Willys-Overland is bidding sharply for a place in the less-than-$500 field...
...Widely rumored last week was a manufacturing and sales agreement between International Harvester's truck department and Willys-Overland Co. Possible result: a $400 car to sell to farmers through International Harvester's 200 branches...