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Most Southern authors have a marked tendency to breathe harder than other writers, especially when they tackle historical fiction. Out of the huffing and puffing come purple imagery, melodrama of incest and murder, sentence structure as involuted as an express highway cloverleaf. The dividend from this school of writing is that the reader achieves a total immersion in the scene; the danger is that he may drown in words. Fortunately, Author Lytle (of Murfreesboro, Tenn.) comes up for air every now and then, and gets on with his story of life in the Cumberlands of Tennessee during the 1870s...
Wind, Sand & Bars. In Pearland, Texas, Almond Perkins drew a $29.50 fine for drunkenness after he piloted his 1950 Ford onto the Cloverleaf Airport runway, roared up and down at 70 m.p.h. for an hour, complained to a sheriff's deputy who finally cornered him that the car would not take off-"no matter how fast I taxied...
...hours. Pontiac commercials concentrate on good "portrait shots" of the car while an off-screen announcer raves about "this year's sensation that thrills the nation!" Oldsmobile has produced the most eye-catching commercial: a flood of white convertibles moving smoothly along a parkway and into a cloverleaf exit. Only 40 cars are used, but skillful camera work makes it seem like hundreds...
...intruder at regular air bases, the military helicopter is coming into its own at Fort Eustis, Va., where the Army is constructing the world's largest helicopter airport. Built with an eye toward experimentation in loading and maintenance techniques, the $970,000 heliport looks like a superhighway cloverleaf intersection, boasts two 600-ft. asphalt runways (for heavily laden 'copters) and a giant, circular taxiway, surrounded by eight dust-free warmup "pads." In this specialized setting the Army hopes to devise methods for mass operation of cargo and troop-carrying 'copters with something close to aircraft-carrier speed...
...visitors, who thus cannot get in the way or see what they should not see. At intervals along the work corridor are stations for nurses, who serve only four rooms each, thus saving countless steps and precious time. Surgeon Garfield has arranged the four operating rooms in a cloverleaf pattern around a central instrument room. The hospital's five lower floors are for regular medical, surgical and obstetrical cases, the two top floors for convalescent patients, who can lounge and walk around at will. They enjoy this extra freedom, and can be waited on by maids, thus saving nurses...