...ah, the good old ‘new’ Tom Swift series...I read them voraciously in my formative years... the clean, crew cut Tom with his sidekick Bud Barclay...and what was the fat cook’s name that hung aroung with them...my favorite was the one about the ‘rare earth’ holmium objects that were discovered in Africa, and how nefarious forces were going to use them to cause global damage...they don’t write ‘em like that anymore...