Word: preys
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...long-dreaded day of reckoning is still somewhere in the future. During the last decade, A.S.W. (antisubmarine warfare) has taken giant strides. Killing systems no longer rely on shortrange, slow-acting depth charges. Today the standard sub killer is the torpedo, lugged to the vicinity of its prey by an airplane, helicopter, rocket or another submarine. Once in the water it does not need to be aimed; it "homes" on its victim, following its evasive twisting far into the depths...
...nightfall their wired moth began to detect the ultrasonic cries of bats. From the traces on their oscillograph, the biologists could tell whether an invisible bat was approaching or flying away. Later, when Roeder and Treat turned on a powerful floodlight, they could watch the bats diving on their prey and hear, through the captive moth's ear, the bats' searching sonar beeps and their final triumphant buzz. Sometimes they saw free-flying moths take evasive action, but the motions of both hunter and hunted were too fast to follow with the naked human...
...Jewish deportation was followed up by a heavy bombing of Budapest, and ordered the deportation stopped. He was overruled by Eichmann. An Eichmann lieutenant proposed that Jews be deported at a rate of 3,000 a day; Eichmann-fearful that the advancing Red army might rob him of his prey-boosted the rate to 12,000 daily...
Starts Sunday: A double-barreled comedy bill, one shot of which misfires disastrously. The hit--and it's an Ole Bullseye--is Bob Hope's and Lucille Ball's quite wondorously funny The Facts of Life. The gentleman and lady named are prey to wanderlust; but their exploits are infinitely more humorous than amorous. As for the dud shot, Ask Any Girl, well, it ought to be pretty good. Shirley MacLaine and David Niven are attractive and agreeable people, but the script of this CinemaScopic, Metrocolored drivel reduces the pair to mere boobish blather. Various shorts and a Sylvester cartoon...
...obsolete steam engine, provoked a Great Dane to vicious complaint, wooed mewing seagulls with a boxful of chicken guts, eavesdropped at a bullfight. His long-suffering friends are even accustomed to having him turn up with his equipment to record their squalling, hiccuping children. Wild animals have been Prey's most difficult subjects ("The only possible way to get an alligator to cut loose is by tooting a B-flat French horn; they think the damn thing's a female"). But one of his most memorable triumphs occurred in the lion house of New York's Bronx...