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...Cong rivers or canals. Antipeople peepers include Tipsy 33, a ground-surveillance radar first used by the marines along their Danang perimeter. By the end of this year, a steel-mesh net platform that can be laid by helicopters across jungle treetops will be in use by choppers as a do-it-yourself landing pad; the disgorged troops shinny down through the branches on a metal and nylon ladder...
...more with four new products that Ronson is bringing out this week. The four: a rotating electric hairbrush that massages as it grooms; a combination blender-cooker that whips up omelets or sauces; a butane-fired chafing dish; and a somewhat improved butane cigarette lighter, with the first do-it-yourself replaceable spark wheel. Such innovations are expected to help raise sales from last year's $69 million to $77 million in 1965. That's quite a bit for a company started 70 years ago by a tinkerer named Aronson, who invented a one-motion cigarette lighter, dropped...
...hope to include a do-it-yourself guide for people concerned about the right-wing takeover and Goldwater sickness in the party," Petri said. The emphasis will be on convincing Republicans that these factions do pose a threat-that there are large sections of the Republican party which have not been convinced by the Goldwater defeat. The only way to fight this is for traditional, conservative party members to become active themselves, Petri explained...
...Simpson has planted one or two ideas that swing. The Groom-kirbys, on the surface, behave like any middle-class family, and after a while their absurd rituals and lunatic discourse begin to seem alarmingly close to the norm. And as they blithely beat words to a pulp in their do-it-yourself Old Bailey, they somehow suggest that one way to solve the angst-ridden question of communication among men is to kill the language in self-defense...
...Balanchine, Christensen's distinctive trait as a choreographer is that he has no readily identifiable style, prefers to let the subject define the method. Last week the San Francisco Ballet shoved off on a two-month cross-country tour with two new Christensen ballets-Lucifer and Life: A Do-It-Yourself Disaster-prime examples of the diversity that has become the company's trademark...