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After six years in Paris studying cello and savoring the food, Norman Goss decided he would rather take a flyer in the restaurant business than starve as a musician. He chose the name Stuft Shirt both as a satiric jab at his neighbors and to convey the idea of a well-filled belly. There are now three Stuft Shirt restaurants in Southern California -best and newest a Venetian-style palace at Newport Beach...
...fought this century-laugh off the dangers they face each day in enemy skies. Yet as Hanoi intensifies its flak and missile defenses, they realize all too well the likelihood of death or capture and extend a special kind of respect to those who have eluded both. Into the flyer's pantheon of heroes last week went two young Navy lieutenants. One-whose name the Pentagon withheld to protect other prisoners who might have helped him-escaped from a Laos-based prison camp. He spent 23 days hiding in mountain wilderness, finally was rescued by a "Jolly Green Giant...
Distinctly more airborne was Jerry Hannifin, who has been our aviation specialist in Washington for ten years. Owner of a two-seater Air Coupe, he is a weekend flyer, estimates that in 30 years as pilot and passenger he has clocked 800,000 miles. Hannifin spent days with Tillinghast and his top aides in New York and examined the airline's overhaul and maintenance headquarters in Kansas City. He also visited TWA's training center, where he was checked out in the simulator of Boeing's new 707-331. "They cranked in some turbulence," recalls Hannifin...
...luck. It's like a wing on an airplane." Fortunately, the gyrocopter is what pilots call "a forgiving plane"; the construction tends to give on crashing, and there is little mass to crush or entangle the pilot. "If he lands in any direction but upside down," says one flyer, "the pilot will generally...
...when the actors can't control their movement, the effect is alternately annoying and absurd. Dan Deitch as Yang Sun, the unemployed flyer, just tries to do too much with his body. He contorts across the stage, face grimacing and body tensed. Everyone knows that Yang is a bastard, so Shen Te's love for him can only be based on sheer sex appeal. Deitch, by equating gruffness and stiff limbs with masculinity makes his appeal to Shen Te incomprehensible...