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Loaded with 80 pounds of gadgets for safety, science and publicity, he climbed into a Lockheed Lodestar one day last week and went upstairs-far above the 'chutists' attic. Bundled in a heavy leather suit, he carried two chutes, oxygen equipment, stop watches, an altimeter, a barograph (to record changes in altitude), a small radio transmitter, pneumograph (to record the action of his lungs...
...mission, "Good Will." As he begins to nibble around the edges of this concept, he finds it one into which it is difficult to sink his teeth-it jumps back like a playful puppy every time he looks at it-as he slides back a bit in his leather chair in the lobby of the Bolivar and tries again. Four mornings later, over breakfast in bed, he says, in a loud voice: "Why am I here? Bullfights?-rather dull after the first time. Movies?-six months after New York. The races?-only on Sundays." Getting no answer because no polite...
...page monthly picture magazine, En Guardia ("For the Defense of the Americas"), was sent to 80,000 leading citizens of Latin America (special leather-bound copies went to Latin America's 20 Presidents). Publisher: Nelson Rockefeller's Committee on Inter-American Affairs. Lavish with color plates, fancy printing and paper, the first issue was devoted to picture propaganda for the U.S. Navy-almost as impressive as a visit from the fleet. Later issues will contain less color, more text, will cost U.S. taxpayers less money, but will have impressive picture spreads demonstrating U.S. potency. And 20,000 copies...
...Commuters' Center on Dunster Street, long infamous for its furnishings has undergone a drastic interior renovation. During the summer the main common room has been equipped with numerous leather sofas and arm-chairs, new linoleum flooring has been laid, and a new junior common room has been added and furnished...
...technical problems were enormous. His camera was a homemade, boxlike contraption with a shutter that was pulled open and pushed shut by hand. Its exposures lasted from two to six minutes. To get his subjects to sit still so long he propped their arms and torsos comfortably on heavy, leather-bound books, canes, chair arms and the edges of tables. Because staring eyes would spoil his pictures, he photographed most people with downcast eyes. Unable to take a picture except in broad sunlight, he constructed "interiors" out of doors with the aid of curtains and furniture...