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...their first formation by snarling sergeants. In place of the customary head shaving, they are given a choice of three suggested hair styles. Nor must they tolerate the name-calling and physical threats that have characterized basic training till now. Along with their green fatigues, recruits are issued laminated plastic "merit cards" on which their instructors can punch up to 50 points a week and 80 during the final week of basic to reward them for their performance in inspections, physical-fitness tests, marksmanship and other military skills. The points can be cashed in for privileges; 30 points...
Inside the sunken, multistory bunkers, equipped with electric lights, TV, foam-rubber mattresses and even disposable plastic mess gear, life becomes a routine of sitting out one artillery barrage after another. Dust blows off the dunes in gagging flurries and the heat is stifling, but the bunkers are relatively safe. The tanklike forts are topped with such a sturdy mixture of sand, concrete, timber and steel rails ripped up from the trans-Sinai line that even accurate salvos send little more than tremors below. The Suez defenders, who call themselves "moles," pass the hours in the cramped forts cleaning their...
...Chance "performed a hysterectomy on her keel," radically shortening and reshaping it in an effort to give the boat more "lift" to windward and help it perform better in lighter winds. The bow and stern remain the same, but the afterbody has been made fuller with the addition of plastic molding. Intrepid's center steering wheel has been replaced by two wheels on either side of the cockpit, allowing the skipper to vary his vantage point. In addition to the two-wheel drive, Chance plans to add a lighter boom partly made of a new space-age material called...
...doing is funny, you don't have to be funny doing it. Playing outpatients of Dr. Strangelove, he and his Tweedledummy Colonel Cathcart (Martin Balsam) italicize every punch line. Even their faces are overstatements. As General Dreedle, Orson Welles sweeps past like Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, all plastic and gas. Dreedle need only have GREED lettered across his middle to complete the cartoon...
Some lucky kids will get to climb a bright yellow sheet of semielastic (plastic) Swiss cheese instead of a cold steel jungle gym when one Project '70 prototype is enlarged. And hip tykes shoud groove on a set of rope swings whose poma-lift type seats look like giant hot pink and dark purple onions. Should they fall, they won't have to hit hard macadam-Project '70 shows four-foot wide flooring dises of foam covered with black vinyl...