Word: safaris
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...NYLON SAFARI (276 pp.)-Rehna Cloete-Houghton Mifflin...
...clock: Would-be lion hunters will fund Geography 152, the Geography of Africa, a helpful course. Professor Whittlesey's safari leaves from Room 43 in the Geological Museum. Fine Arts 75, held in the Fogg Small Lecture Room, is restricted to people who have taken no previous Fine Arts course. But it is, the Fine Arts department insists, limited to the Masters of Modern...
Returning to civilization from a fortnight's safari in Tanganyika, Army General (ret.) James Van Fleet, a rugged 63, brought out proof of a mighty trophy he bagged last month. Van Fleet's kill: a hefty rhinoceros whose lethal front horn measured 29 inches...
...technician whose best known preoccupation is reaching for the moon, famed German-born Rocketeer Wernher von Broun, went in the opposite direction, harnessed himself into skindiving apparatus and plunged into a tank at Miami's Seaquarium for a submarine safari. Also an underwater hunter, Spaceman von Braun recently bagged a 50-lb. grouper in the shallows off Florida's west coast...
Police cruisers guarded the city's Public Works garage all night Thursday as mechanics prepared the fire engine for its 1100-mile safari. Numerous phone calls warned the fire officials that the Lampoon was planning to abscond with the engine and, according to one official, threatened "to keep it longer than we kept the Codfish out of the State House...