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Dropout or Da Vinci. Some hangover. At 53, Kroyer is a millionaire several times over, supports a stable of Jaguars and race horses on the proceeds of more than 200 patents covering items from frying pans and bicycle rim linings to papermaking processes and ship-salvage techniques. He also has a $1,000,000 glass-and-steel research center near Aarhus and a staff of 60 en gineering assistants to ease the migraine of beating his brainstorms into workable plans...
Spindly and bespectacled, Kroyer's own background smacks more of a dropout than a Danish Da Vinci. A haberdasher's son who never went be yond grammar school, Kroyer even now winces at technical journals on the ground that "you risk reading yourself stupid." He explains his self-schooled skills by saying that "the recognition of a demand works on me like a magnet. I then set out to define the problems and correct them...
...other witnesses. Andrews was the first to come to trial. He did not go quietly, of course, even defended himself for half of the proceedings. At one point he asked for a brief delay "so I can collect my thoughts. I just can't pop up and say da-da-da-da-da-da." Next day he added: "I don't know from nothing. What I got is a vivid imagination. The moral to all this, brother-in-law, is keep your big mouth shut." Which he may now have to do when Garrison brings Shaw to trial...
...March 23, 1967, a small plane crashed into a mountainside 20 miles north of Da Nang, Vietnam, killing all eight passengers and the pilot. The passengers--all of them American educators--were conducting a survey on behalf of the Agency for International Development on public universities in South Vietnam. The plane crash occurred only a week before the educators were scheduled to return home from their year-long study...
Downtown Landing. Shaped like a stubby blimp with wings, the 78-ft. Breguet 941 can carry 60 people or ten tons of cargo - 51 tons more than Cana da's de Havilland Caribou, the largest operational STOL-type transport. At 270 m.p.h., it also flies faster than any helicopter and has a greater maximum range: 500 miles. Developed as a mil itary assault transport, it can land fully loaded at speeds as slow as 55 m.p.h...