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Gannon, Robert Haines was born on March 5, 1931 in White Plains, New York, United States. Son of John Albert and Dorothy Belle (Merrick) Gannon.
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From dust jacket notes: "Illustrated with 19 full-color photographs, 22 black-and-white photographs, and 2 maps...Operation Gwamba began when ISPA (the International Society for the Protection of Animals) learned that thousands of forest creatures were trapped by the spreading artificial lake behind the new Afobaka Dam in Surinam - formerly Dutch Guiana. To Surinam, ISPA sent John Walsh, a young man trained in rescue techniques by the Massachusetts SPCA. what followed was one of this century's most extraordinary true adventures of man and animal....Time Is Short and the Water Rises, is John Walsh's own vivid story of his adventures written with Robert Gannon. It is the story of Walsh's first capture, a half-starved three-fingered sloth who, when released, fled in slow motion panic up the nearest tree...of a pygmy anteater whose unaccountable hostility was explained when, the night of its rescue, it gave birth to 'a single, thimble-size, hairless, big-nosed replica' of itself...of the anaconda which initiated a hair-raising wrestling match. But, above all it is an amazing adventure tale about the nick-of-time rescue of 10,000 helpless creatures - armadillos, tortoises, sloths, anteaters, opossums, giant snakes, kinkajous, tapirs, ocelots, and dozens of other species...."
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Ultimately, World War II was the first war won by technology, but within only a few weeks after the war began, the U.S. Navy realized its torpedo program was a dismal failure. Submarine skippers reported that most of their torpedoes were either missing the targets or failing to explode if they did hit. The United States had to work fast if it expected to compete with the Japanese Long Lance, the biggest and fastest torpedo in the world, and Germany's electric and sonar models. Hellions of the Deep tells the dramatic story of how Navy planners threw aside the careful procedures of peacetime science and initiated "radical research": gathering together the nation's best scientists and engineers in huge research centers and giving them freedom of experimentation to create sophisticated weaponry with a single goal—winning the war. The largest center for torpedo work was a requisitioned gymnasium at Harvard University, where the most famous names in science worked with the best graduate students from all around the country at the business of war. They had to produce tangible weapons, to consider production and supply tactics, to take orders from the military, and, in many cases, also to teach the military how to use the weapons they developed. World War II grew into a chess match played by scientists and physicists, and it became the only war in history to be won by weapons invented during the conflict. For this book, Robert Gannon conducted numerous interviews over a twenty-year period with scientists, engineers, physicists, submarine skippers, and Navy bureaucrats, all involved in the development of the advanced weapons technology that won the war. While the search for new weapons was deadly serious, stretching imagination and resourcefulness to the limit each day, the need was obvious: American ships were being blown up daily just outside the Boston harbor. These oral histories reveal that, in retrospect, surprising even to those who went through it, the search for the "hellions of the deep" was, for many, the most exciting period of their lives.
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Science writing is not technical writing, but a unique form of journalism. In best science writing, you will find the finest science journalism combined with intelligent commentary to make a winning collection of highly readable and informative articles that can instruct and inspire writers and students.
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Gannon, Robert Haines was born on March 5, 1931 in White Plains, New York, United States. Son of John Albert and Dorothy Belle (Merrick) Gannon.
Student, Miami University Ohio, 1949-1953; student, Columbia University, 1955; student, New York University, 1958.
Associate Professor of English, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, since 1974. Freelance writer, since 1959.
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Married Melady Kehm, October 25, 1991.