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...rumor had been circulating at Nevada State Prison in Carson City for nearly five years, but no one took it seriously. Finally, the new warden dispatched a special security squad to check it out. Sure enough, there in the prison shop were a three-wheel gocart, a motorcycle engine, a rear rotor blade-in short, more or less everything needed to build a helicopter except the main overhead blade. The criminal masterminds were a welder, a plumber and an electrician serving long sentences in maximum security. Warden George Sumner contends that the plot would never have flown anyway: "If they...
Warning signs sprout on trees along the unpaved roads. FROST HEAVES . . . BUMPS . . . CLOSED. Only the foolish travel back roads without chains, winches and, for real safety, four-wheel drive. Brookfield has 76 miles of town road, and only four miles are paved. Citizens who are dissatisfied with the correlation between taxes paid and quality of road surface tend to complain. As a consequence, many road commissioners and some selectmen in Vermont tend to acquire unlisted telephone numbers after about a year of public service...
...Paris World's Fair of 1889 produced another herald of modern architectural engineering, Gustave Eiffel's 1,010-ft. tower. Except for the first Ferris wheel, the World's Columbian Exposition at Chicago in 1893 did not really advance structural engineering. But it was a dream of what the American city might be. Designed under the direction of Architect Daniel Burnham and Landscape Architect Frederick Law Olmsted, who also created New York's Central Park, it helped inspire the monumental heart of Washington, D.C., as well as public buildings from coast to coast...
...hundred and twenty-five students attended the wedding and reception held at the Triad dining hall. Wedding guests threw bird seed at the pair as the groom toted the bride off in a wheel barrow. Travel expenses for the honey moon were limited to a dinner for two at a nearby restaurant...
American ingenuity has produced some novel ideas. Police increasingly videotape the slurring and lurching of detained driv ers for use later as evidence. In Los Angeles some second-time offenders have to use a specially equipped car. After turning on the ignition, the driver must maneuver the steering wheel so that a needle moves into the "pass" area on a gauge. In Maine, Beer Distributor Frank Gaziano of South Portland is pushing bar owners to buy breath analyzers. The customer puts 500 in the slot and blows into the machine through a straw; a red light goes...