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...Minister Harold Wilson recently told a Labor Party meeting that his wife Mary was "almost in tears" as she watched "a little old lady moving from one part of a shop to the other, pricing all the things she wanted." The woman finally walked out "clutching a pathetic little plastic package of two slices of meat loaf...
...sail paper planes from his office window. As a result of the story, Kline has received inquiries from all over the world, including a request from a White House aide for a working replica. He is dickering with the Milton Bradley Co., which has expressed interest in producing plastic models of the plane. His technical adviser, a Notre Dame aerodynamicist, has requested funding from the Defense Department to study further why the plane flies so well, and Kline and his invention will be featured on a segment of the CBS television show 60 Minutes...
...could do little else. At the pressure that exists at a depth of 360 ft. (162 lbs. per sq. in.), a free swim to the surface was considered far too risky. Trapped along with Menzies in Sea-Link's forward observation compartment-a helicopter-like bubble made of plastic-was Marine Biologist Robert Meek, 27. The younger Link and Veteran Diver Albert Stover, 51, were sealed off separately in the aluminum aft compartment...
...five camps run by Outdoor Resorts of America. With its neatly manicured drives, Nettles looks like a modern suburban development, except that the houses all have wheels. The parking sites are concrete rectangles, each with a short driveway, gate lamp, concrete table, benches and small lawn. From the trailers, plastic tubes stretch like umbilical cords into the underground sewage facilities...
...trip if you have got a car. Clientele ranges from truck drivers to spiritual descendants of Oscar Wilde, denizens of the North End dressed in sunglasses. Fedoras, dark shirts and wide white ties sit elbow to elbow with shoulder length longhairs in tie died muscle shirts and jeans with plastic bags tucked in the pockets. Everybody loves the ham and eggs and the lurid murals...