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...beating Ted Weideman, 15-10, 15-1, 13-15, and 15-9, in the number five match. And "Bats" Wheeler dropped the first game before taking the next three from Tom MacDonald, 15-6, 15-8, and 15-7. Rather than employing straight power. Wheeler used many angle and spin shots that caught MacDonald going the wrong...
...blooming plants (flowers are replaced before wilting). Hereafter, the pleasure which visitors take in the agapanthus and the vanilla vines will grow or shrink (depending on individual personality and politics) with the thought of that $60 million. Longwood's taxexempt, gilt-edged lilies will toil not, nor spin; they may invite some musing future Coolidge to murmur: "Some shareholders...
...merely selects the spot where he wants to land. He brings the VTOL to a hovering position-and lands." According to him, the VTOL is as at home in the air as a dragonfly. It can hover indefinitely, its engines blasting downward. It can fly backward and sideways and spin like a waltzing mouse...
Simply sighting flying saucers is out of date-the big spin now is to spot them landing and to hobnob with their interplanetary passengers. Pioneer yarn-spinner among the neo-Münchausen breed is George Adamski, a self-described Southern California "philosopher, student, teacher, saucer researcher" and former short-order cook who claimed (in last year's Flying Saucers Have Landed) that he stood beside a saucer on the California desert in November 1952 and talked (telepathically) with a tanned, short visitor from Venus...
...numbers. Not content with one run-through of "Alexander's Ragtime Band," for example, the entire cast pursues the piece in any mimicable dialect--all with gusto and girls. The finale is especially typical, with everything in motion. A gigantic pedestal moves up and down, banners swirl, toe dancers spin about, and jugglers far in the background fling objects into whatever space remains. The effect is quite fulsome, and with the exception of Marilyn, a wholesome and generally entertaining musical...