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...seems to me that if he had lowered his altitude by 3 ft., not even trying to move at all, the load would not have been too heavy and, in a short time, a ship could have come to lift...
...this year for the first time the rate is dipping. Eastbound steamship bookings are down 6.8% from 1960; Cunard Line (the Queens Mary and Elizabeth) advertised cabin-class accommodations still available as of last week. And although transatlantic airlines are actually carrying more people abroad, the load rate is averaging only 50% because the big new jets have increased seating capacity...
...weights-including saddle, jockey and lead slugs slipped into the saddlebags-to slow down the fast runner, give the other horses a chance to compete. At the nation's top race tracks-New York State's Belmont, Saratoga and Aqueduct -the man who decides how heavy a load the horses will carry is a tall, freckled handicapper with the eminently horsey name of Tommy Trotter...
...Loads Down, Costs Up. The rise in revenue and the drop in profit both can be traced to the same source: the jets. The airlines have invested well over $2 billion to buy 200 jets, have another 200 of them on order. As expected, the high-priced jets have attracted many new passengers, but not nearly enough to fill the expanded number of seats. Load factors have slumped since 1957 from 61.5% to a tree-skimming...
...wilderness, get a portable gas stove, grub box, cots, air mattresses, an air pump for the mattresses (one model gets its puffs from the automobile exhaust pipe), charcoal grill, folding toilet ($11.95) and canvas bathtub ($17.50). If the car battery is in good shape, the camper can also load up a small refrigerator, tent heater, fluorescent lamp, electric smoker for chicken, and coffee maker-all of which can be wired like an umbilical cord into the dashboard cigar lighter, a versatile instrument that can do almost anything but whistle Tenting Tonight...