Word: tailed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...more sophisticated than any helicopter now flying in Viet Nam but is also a long technological hop ahead of anything in the industry. Designated the AH-56A Cheyenne, Lockheed's AAFSS is a "compound" aircraft. Like a conventional helicopter, the single-turbine Cheyenne has a main rotor and tail-mounted stabilizing rotor for hovering and vertical takeoffs and landings. In the air, a simple twist of the control-stick grip sets the pitch of the rear-mounted pusher propeller for 240-m.p.h. cross-country dashes on the craft's stubby wings...
...that Producer Charles Feldman could make for the theme song of his $12 million, many-Bonded movie was Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass. Playing Burt Bacharach's music, Herb and the boys take the bull by the horns, while a very competent studio orchestra keeps the tail from dragging...
...Tails. X-ray studies reveal natural collagen as three strands of molecules twisted together like rope. The strands are short, and many have to be joined end to end to make up the body's long collagen fibers. Dr. Tomio Nishihara, a physical chemist who heads research for the Japan Leather Co., and Dr. Francis O. Schmitt of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, thought there must be something on the ends of the basic molecules that enabled them to couple. Dr. Albert L. Rubin and an M.I.T. team set about testing the theory. They found that each collagen strand...
Uprooting Bushes. The inflationary rise is getting a strong tail wind from the country's primitive agriculture, which is failing to keep up with the annual increase in the birth rate. Last year, Brazil's population increased almost roughly by the equivalent of the total population of Uruguay (pop. 2.7 million). Yet Brazil's farm tools and techniques are so antiquated that the country actually produces less corn and wheat per acre than it did 30 years ago. Moreover, one-fourth of what it does produce spoils before it reaches market because of poor transportation and storage...
Returning to Amsterdam, Kortlandt organized a three-man expedition to Guinea, equipped it with cameras and an experimental tool of his own design: a stuffed leopard animated by a windshield-wiper mechanism that moved its head and tail. Hiding in the bush, Kortlandt's crew waited until a group of about 30 chimps passed nearby and then pulled the mock leopard into view. "Hell broke loose," says Zoologist Jo Van Orshoven, a member of the expedition. "With enormous yelling and hooting they started to attack the leopard in an organized and coordinated...