Word: treks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Kangaroo (20th Century-Fox), the product of a 9,200-mile location trek, is the first Hollywood movie to be made in Australia. The trip paid off with striking Technicolor scenes that Director Lewis Milestone shot around Sydney and rugged Flinders Range: a cattle stampede in a bushfire, a corroboree rain dance, a blistering dust storm and a slashing bullwhip battle between a couple of bushrangers...
...began with a Danish survey map made in 1938. His mathematical predictions agree with measurements made by French Explorer Paul-Emile Victor as recently as 1950. Victor's party, however, had to make a 700-mile trek across southern Greenland. Every ten miles they measured ice thickness by detonating a charge of dynamite and timing the echo as it bounced from the rock floor far below. Admittedly more accurate, Victor's seismic soundings were time-consuming and limited. As check-points for Nye's formulas, they take on new importance...
...have escaped with secret parts of his electronic invention. Just in time for the fadeout, the fugitives are conveniently buried in an avalanche. This leaves the scientist free to pursue his invention-as well as a beautiful Lapp girl, who has been getting warm glances from him during the trek over the frozen tundra...
...jungle telegraph, he passed the word that he was planning to give away free tobacco rations. Some 40 pygmies showed up for the handout. Of these, Schoeman was able to persuade only 18 to help him in his experiment. The 18 made the long trek south to Cape Town, so that the white men at South Africa's tercentenary exposition this week could see the pygmies in the flesh. Only men and married women went along because, as any pygmy knows, a maiden who drinks water from alien springs will become sterile...
...took off her skis and began a laborious trek, often hip-deep in snow,* down the 1,000-meter course. At each of the 59 "gates," the flag-decked poles marking the obligatory turning points, Andy paused and made mental calculations. She carefully gauged each hillock and bump, guessed at her racing speed, and mentally mapped a line of descent to follow. At the bottom she rested, then trudged back up the course, stopping again at each gate to review and correct her calculations. She was adding her own figuring to the slalom racer's standard formula...