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...Theory. Frazier next appeared at the home of his estranged wife Delores, carrying a .38 cal. Smith and Wesson revolver in his waistband and a backpack with food for several days. When he left, he handed her his wallet and driver's license with the remark: "I won't be needing these any more." Among the personal possessions he left behind was a book on tarot. A warrant was issued for Frazier's arrest and a watch put on his cabin...
...offer, I'd go broke. Most people nowadays want good facilities. I'll provide them, and meanwhile, I'll do my own camping in my own way." For his vacation away from Billings, Booth prefers to take only as much equipment as he can backpack, and rarely stops at a convenience-loaded campground...
...system became still more complex after the astronauts stepped out of the LM and onto the moon. No longer hooked up with the cabin, Armstrong carried in his backpack a 61-lb. unit consisting of two transmitters and three receivers. The portable outfit sent his voice back to the LM, which then rebroadcast it to the world. Once Edwin Aldrin emerged from the cabin, he picked up Armstrong's voice directly by means of a backpack receiver of his own. Aldrin's voice, in turn, was broadcast to Armstrong by a tiny FM transmitter. It was Armstrong...
Died. Major Edward G. Givens, 37, Air Force test pilot and one of 19 new astronauts selected last year, who was assigned as project officer in the development of a jet-powered backpack for maneuvering on space walks; of injuries suffered when the Volkswagen he was driving crashed near Houston...
...treetops at 60 m.p.h. for as far as ten miles. Weighing a total of only some 150 Ibs., propelled by a Lilliputian fanjet engine and fed by a back-riding fuel depot of seven to ten gallons of kerosene, the new jet is aimed at superseding a current experimental backpack that is operated by rocket thrust and has a range of only 860 ft. Though it will be a year before the new system can be proved feasible, scientists at Bell Aerosystems Co., which developed both the old and new jet belts, are optimistic. The Pentagon has invested...