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Appreciation also is extended to Adrian Hunsberger, Miami-Dade County Extension; Thomas Pospical, Mosaic Company; Tim Gast, Southern Gardens Citrus; Mark DuBois, Grove Callery-Judge LP; Ray Wambles, Wheeler Farms, Lake Wales; Renee Richards, Hollywood Parks and Recreation Department; and Michael Kesinger, Florida Department of Agriculture & Consumer Services.

The British-born author also wrote, in that piece, "Vehicles of Desire" (contained in A Critic Writes: Essays by Reyner Banham; University of California Press), "The next time an open 'Caddy' wambles past you, its front chrome-hung like a peral-roped dowager, its long top level with the ground at a steady thirty inches save where the two tail-fins cock up to carry the rear lights, reflect what a change has been wrought since the last time any architect expressed himself forcibly on the subject of the automobile"--think about the last time you saw a Cadillac that looked like that.

The Encyclopedia misses reference to "wambles," "fuglemen," "cornets," "heat beams," "ion rays," "Despite Cob," "Mount Halcyon," "the Jambles." Such humans as "pacifists" are not mentioned but one wonders whether Vance had strong views on the matter.