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...quit his job as a sheet metal worker at Douglas Aircraft Co., began peddling his own Hobbycopter kits and blueprints. Last year Adams sold nearly 100 kits at $2,800 apiece, mailed out more than 1,000 blueprints at $35 each. Helicopter clubs have sprouted up in Detroit and Flint, Mich., Rockford, Ill., Minneapolis and St. Paul. Explains Designer Igor Bensen: "Helicopters attract the young in spirit. Some are people who have reached the saturation point playing with cars and want more of a challenge. Some are frustrated pilots. There are more than 300,000 pilots...
...artisans, Hacilar's people were remarkably advanced. The tools of work were stone chisels and sickles, made of polished deer antlers and fitted with hard flint blades. The tools of war were sling-stones and maces with heads of blue-veined marble. Hacilar's women had their own sort of weapons: Mellaart found obsidian pendants and bracelets made of fossil shells, as well as lumps of red ocher that were presumably ground into a kind of rouge...
...Newcomers: Philadelphia, Cleveland, Baltimore, Los Angeles-Long Beach, St. Louis, Kansas City, Mo., Peoria, Akron, Allentown-Bethlehem-Easton, Asheville, Corpus Christi, Flint, Grand Rapids, Knoxville, Louisville, Mobile, Newark, New Brunswick-Perth Amboy, Portland, Ore., Savannah, Tacoma, Toledo, Trenton, Worcester, and York...
Some of the fakers have taken their own places in art history. One Edward Simpson, a 19th century master forger of Stone Age implements, came to be admired among archaeologists as the fabulous "Flint Jack." Two illiterate London mudrakers named Billy and Charley produced and buried thousands of "ancient" metal objects, and such objects are known as "Billys and Charleys" to this day. An ingenious forger named Peter Thompson, actually a carpenter and builder living near Regent's Park in the 1840s, not only forged 17th century "master drawings," but also invented the master. He named the man Captain...
...himself. Author of the majority opinion: Associate Justice George Edwards, 46, onetime (1938-39) U.A.W. director of welfare. * Despite their party's low ebb at home, a remarkable number of Michigan Republicans have been appointed to top jobs in the Eisenhower Administration. Among them: Postmaster General Arthur Summerfield, Flint Chevrolet dealer and ex-chairman of the Republican National Committee; Secretary of Defense (1953-57) Charles Wilson, ex-president of General Motors; Secretary of Commerce Frederick H. Mueller, Grand Rapids furniture manufacturer; Secretary of the Army Wilber Brucker, onetime Michigan Governor (1931-32); Budget Director (1953-54) Joseph Dodge, Detroit...