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Outboard Dugout. At a wharf in the Tutong River, a Dayak fisherman, the descendant of generations of headhunters, climbs into his primitive dugout canoe, glances at his stainless-steel Rolex wristwatch, yanks the starter cord on his Johnson outboard motor, and whooshes upstream in a spray of foam (in one year alone, more than 1,000 outboard motors were sold in Brunei). Farther along the river, a work crew of tattooed natives mix concrete for the pilings of a new bridge. There is money in their pockets for ice-cold Carlsberg beer, Lucky Strikes and Ronson cigarette lighters...
...currently made of tough new plastic materials such as Fiberglas, which can be molded into any shape, impregnated with a dazzling array of colors. Today's inboard and outboard runabouts are as flashy as any Detroit automaker's creation with upswept tail fins, wrap-around windshields, foam-rubber bucket seats, airplane-type controls-and they come at bargain prices. With mass-production assembly lines, do-it-yourself boat kits, and half-finished boats that the buyer completes himself, a family can buy a 14-ft. speedboat for as little as $307, can build itself a 20-ft. cabin...
...After three tense hours there was still one faint hope: a landing that would give the dangling paratrooper half a chance to survive the high-speed impact with the ground. Ingeniously the Air Force ordered fire engines to spray a runway of Pope Air Force Base with slick, heavy foam. Just before the null wheels touched down, one of the crewmen cut Flugum loose. He shot along the runway back down, protected by his parachute pack, in a smooth, 100-ft. glide. Thanks to the split-second ingenuity, he was unbruised by the landing. But despite all the ingenuity...
...Brewster admitted that he had signed checks totaling $6,663 to Dimny Lee Walton, a Los Angeles interior decorator, for ornamenting the Seattle home of the late John Sweeney, secretary-treasurer of the Western Conference. Included were such items as an imported crystal chandelier ($174) and foam-rubber padding ($382). Brewster insisted that Sweeney's estate would pay for anything Sweeney had owed the union. How? Out of the $50,000 that the Teamsters' rank and file had since forked over, by special assessment, to Sweeney's widow...
...Jean's eyes rose with the flames. Suddenly, before a dummy could replace the lady not for burning, a gas pocket, fed by hidden jets, ignited and enveloped Jean in fire. Chortling make-believe satisfaction a moment before, the film extras now screamed in dead earnest. After foam extinguishers doused the blaze, Jean, luckily only singed, was carried off by a studio cop and a hooded executioner from the cast. Later, through her ointment, Jean, only a year or so out of bobby-sox, offered a thoroughly unsaintly version of her martyrdom: "I smell like a singed chicken...