Word: rex
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...more than the contemporary world is able to resist. The prehistoric pageant lasts only twelve minutes. The car radio announces: "This is the world that was," and the rider swerves past little dinosaur eggs hatching before his very eyes, while off to the left a two-story Tyrannosaurus rex is busily killing a tough stegosaurus. A caveman with Cro-Magnon bravado appears, confronting an 800-lb. bear. A pert little cavewoman turns meat on a spit, while her cave-baby warms his bottom beside her. Cavedaddy turns out to be the first tycoon. He invents the wheel...
Within hours, Radio Havana was on the air railing about the attack. Castro denied that the exiles had sent in a landing party. The mill, he fumed, was bombarded from the sea "by a pirate vessel of the Rex type, which the CIA operates from bases located in Florida, Puerto Rico and Central America...
SATURDAY NIGHT AT THE MOVIES (NBC, 9-11 p.m.). Kay Kendall, in one of her most delightful performances, as stepmother to The Reluctant Debutante, with Rex Harrison and Sandra...
...tall at the withers) three-year-old bay owned by San Francisco Real Estate Tycoon George Pope Jr., whose Decidedly won the 1962 Derby, Hill Rise has won six races in a row, including February's $132,400 Santa Anita Derby. Jockey Shoemaker was in that race-aboard Rex Ellsworth's highly touted The Scoundrel, a powerful, stretch-running colt that tied the Santa Anita track record for a mile in an afternoon workout. The Scoundrel finished fifth, seven lengths behind Hill Rise. And it was that view from the back that persuaded Shoemaker to pick Hill Rise...
...Palais des Nations, a stocky, dark-haired Russian named Yuri Ivanovich Nosenko took his seat among the other secretaries, clerks, aides and technicians in the Soviet delegation at the 17-nation disarmament conference. But though Nosenko was billeted with other low-ranking Soviet staffers in Geneva's Hotel Rex, it was obvious that he enjoyed special status. He roomed alone, spoke fluent English, had a different work schedule from that of his colleagues, often came home alone late at night after all the others were in. The reason was that, unknown to his fellow delegates, Nosenko's specialty...