Word: rovers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...inflammable fluid (the publicity department likes to take a car for a $500 spin on a quart of Arpege). is the engineering department's answer to slumping sales. Chrysler is using it in the Dodge Turbo Dart and Plymouth Turbo Fury. Britain's entry: the Rover T4, which was exhibited next to Rover's first turbine, the Jet I, demonstrated twelve years ago. All in all, the show was a record breaker: 450 entries and the largest collection of new models (51) ever to be unveiled at the same time...
...Would Set Us Back." During the 1958-61 test moratorium, Ogle worked on the AEC's peaceful Project Rover, seeking development of nuclear rocket propulsion, and represented the AEC at Geneva test-ban talks. Returning to weapons research when President Kennedy ordered resumption of underground testing in Nevada, Ogle was recommended for the Christmas Island job by his longtime boss, Alvin Graves, test director at Los Alamos. (Graves has been one of the leading figures in nuclear testing, once was critically ill from exposure to a radiation dose of 200 roentgens; he recovered, but has been slowed down since...
...stalking the proper sello (rubber stamp) through the corridors of the Buenos Aires customs house, Zoologist Gerald Durrell was feeling (as his brother, the logodaedalist novelist Lawrence Durrell, might have put it) both phthisic and etiolated. But before long Durrell was again at peace, sleeping under his Land Rover, tormenting a 20-ft.-long bull sea elephant into a cinema-genic rage, using his own big toe as bait to lure a rare vampire bat. The author is a zoophile who tired several years ago of catching animals for other people and, as he related...
...imaginative attacks on the difficult problem of studying the lunar surface before humans learn how to survive there. RCA showed a six-legged job that walks cautiously on circular rubber feet, a small six-legger that looks like a metal praying mantis, an inflated plastic ball, and a moon rover that creeps like a centipede. Perhaps the best thought out of the tribe was an insectlike machine made by Space-General Corp. Powered by solar batteries, it walks on long, jointed metal legs. By means of a TV camerabit transmits pictures of the lunar landscape to its masters on faraway...
...Publisher. Several sheafs of remarkable photographs show the cubs as they develop from wobble-kneed clowns to adult predators. Elsa remains the book's commanding personality, clubbing her children judiciously when they are too rough for her human friends, using the top of the Adamsons' Land Rover as a refuge when she is tired of suckling. The reader acquires some useful information-rhinos make "unexpectedly meek sounds" when they mate, lurking crocodiles will show themselves if one says "imn, imn," before fording a river, and a nursing lioness can retract her teats for convenience while hunting...