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Neon Sign. Now 61 and a man without a party, McCall will leave the statehouse on Jan. 13. His future is as misty as the Willamette Valley at dawn. He underwent two cancer operations in 1973, but still appears healthy and trim at 6 ft. 3 in., 200 Ibs. Last week McCall was being mentioned as a potential recruit for the Ford Administration. In addition, McCall has been offered a college presidency and a professorship in communications (he was a newspaper and television newsman for 25 years before being elected secretary of state in 1964). But the prospect he talks...
...surprises. Bach, whose most recent book is A Gift of Wings, will teach a 15-week two-credit seminar on "philosophy of flight." The curriculum should elicit gasps from commercial pilots and shudders from airline passengers. The students "will have to spend an evening some time between midnight and dawn alone with an airplane and see what happens." And if a cybernetic relationship is successfully established, "they're going to have to do nothing but sit and listen to an airplane running." Is this love? "They're going to have to go back and say, 'What called...
...practicing his trumpet deep in the woods. Early one morning after a concert in Munich, Andre drove out to a meadow in the Bavarian woods and began blowing. Three men armed with rifles suddenly ran toward him furiously. They were hunters who had been lying in wait since dawn; Andre had scared off the first deer of the day. His departure was like a Vivaldi fast movement-allegro vivace...
...Before dawn last Tuesday, three Arab terrorists belonging to the Popular Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine crossed the border from Jordan. They invaded an apartment building in Bet She'an, killing four of its inhabitants and wounding 19 more (including eight children). The guerrillas themselves were killed by counterattacking paratroopers a short time later in a pitched battle in which the terrorists tried to use a children's toy box as a makeshift barricade...
...become a collection of competing manias, and its traces-rooming houses, motels, highways-are perched on the edge of primitive wilderness. Driving out of Los Angeles, Hicks comments on the quick change of scenery: "Go out for a Sunday spin, you're a short hair from the dawn of creation...