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...were back in action-on The Road to Hong Kong, which is about to be shot on location in London. Arriving for work, Teapot Dome Crosby poured himself a cuppa, resulting in a rare publicity shot: Crosby minus toupee. The tea provided a needed bracer against the role of a Do-It-Yourself Space Kit salesman shot into orbit with his colleague, Hope, by a mad scientist (Robert Morley) who is trying to conquer space. Dorothy Lamour will remain pretty much on the ground in a brief, nostalgic sarong; Joan (Rally 'Round the Flag, Boys!) Collins is the chase...
Some of them operate with elementary do-it-yourself kits and low-power equipment that costs less than $100; others go in for more elaborate commercial rigs, build their stations up to the maximum legal power limit (one kilowatt) and spend as much as $4,000. Currently, some 15,000 hams are participating in the annual field test of the American Radio Relay League. Encouraged by the test rules to use noncommercial power sources, they set up battery-powered transmitters or emergency generators a few weeks ago, and, sitting by their sets for a grueling 24 hours, they tried...
...nearby towns. Teenagers, backed by parents, staged pop concerts, cake sales, manned sidewalk booths, highway "toll stations,'' ran a dress shop. Fradkin meanwhile pushed his plan by letter, phone, or nose-to-nose persuasion, got more inquiries than he could handle. Last year he organized the communities with do-it-yourself scholarship plans into the loosely knit Citizens' Scholarship Foundation of America, Inc., charged a $50 chartering fee to pay for a rented typewriter, phone bills, and the salary of the sole employee of the foundation, a housewife and part-time executive secretary. Fradkin naturally became president...
...immediately an nounced. But the job of measuring was thoroughly done. Kennedy found De Gaulle to be in accordance with the advance billing: a messianic, convinced statesman who, in six frank and open talks, came not an inch closer to accepting the U.S. view that France should cut short its do-it-yourself nuclear-arms development and live up to its NATO commitments. De Gaulle found Kennedy to be clever and knowledgeable, but still unsure in the manipulation of national power. But the personal relationship went better than anyone had expected. Thanks in large part to the help of Jackie...
...Americans Are Nuts." Behind the homemade helicopter boom are high-soaring thrills, little risk and low cost. Ready-to-fly commercial helicopters cost upwards of $20,000, but Bensen Aircraft Co. of Raleigh, N.C., has sold "several thousand" do-it-yourself kits, ranging in price up to $6,000, has a file of 100,000 potential customers-most of whom already have paid $2 for drawings and general specifications of its products. Two years ago, convinced that "Americans are nuts about helicopters," Los Angeles Copter Buff Tom Adams quit his job as a sheet metal worker at Douglas Aircraft...