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...factory after factory, workers passed word that every available car, truck and motorcycle must converge on the Wall at noon. An hour ahead of schedule, a solid line of traffic surged eastward toward the sector boundary. Near the Wall, the drivers jammed their cars into every inch of parking space, got out to cover their license plates (so as not to be identified by East German guards) and to lift their hoods (to expose their klaxons). Then they sat back and waited with hands on horns...
...hull of Honduras mahogany that took nine months to build. Gretel's sails were cut from 13,970 yds. of light blue Dacron imported from the U.S.; her go-it, extruded aluminum mast was constructed to such rigid specifications that four one-thousandths of an inch was shaved off one section to make sure that its center of gravity was correct. "This is a national project," said Sir Frank, and Aussies everywhere were caught up in the excitement. One company donated bronze, another turned it into screws at no cost, a third gave 20 tons of lead...
...powered flight ever since the '40s. Two years ago, after Kremer offered his prize money, Wimpenny organized the Hatfield Man Powered Aircraft Club and designed Puffin. Spars were made from spruce. The plane's framework was covered with a plastic film one three-thousandth of an inch thick. As it took shape in a hangar, Puffin's fuselage grew to 20 ft., its wings spread out for 84 ft. Practicing in the cockpit, Wimpenny took the classic pose of a racing cyclist-body bent forward, hands on a low-mounted handle...
Government economists now see little chance of a substantial rise in prices within the next six months. They expect consumer prices to continue to inch up, largely because of increasing costs for services. Wholesale prices are not expected to rise more than one half of 1%−which would put them righ twhere they were...
...simple man," says portly Jack Cotton, 59, drawing deeply on an eight-inch Havana. "All my life I've done nothing but eat, sleep and think property." He has plenty of property to think about. As chairman of London's City Centre Properties Ltd., he owns or manages office buildings, apartments, hotels and shopping centers in 268 British cities and 13 countries, collecting $17 million a year in rents...