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...Mayers, 32, whose helicopter wing returned recently from Viet Nam. "It's not quite what we're used to." Battling wing ice and frozen gas lines instead of flak, pilots flew more than 1,000 mercy sorties. When an Air Force C-141 dropped 1,300 gal. of fuel oil and a team of paracommandos on Arizona's Tuba City (pop. 2,000), schoolchildren braved 10°-below-zero temperatures-to get the parachutists' autographs...
...both thin and strident. Molded into a $30,000 skintight, flesh-colored gown, however, she can still give the illusion of youth, at least across the footlights. And there is the illusion of sex as she glances at the balcony while chanting a self-mocking version of The Laziest Gal in Town...
Puerto Penasco's people are already receiving fringe benefits of a technology that may someday support thousands of new desert towns. In addition to moistening the greenhouse soil, the 6,000-gal. daily output of pure water is given to the local hospital and school and is bottled and sold as "Agua Solar" to help defray the plant's operating expenses. And the cucumbers, squash, tomatoes and other vegetables produced in the greenhouses are given away free to local residents...
Sardonic Humor. Guns & Ammo, one of Robert Petersen's string of Los Angeles-based sports publications (Hot Rod, Car Craft), has the second largest circulation: 222,384. Its specialty is sardonic humor. "I was reading the other day," began a recent article, "about a gal in Baltimore who did in her boy friend with a nine-iron, and I'm here to tell you it's about time lethal weapons such as this should be regulated by the Federal Government. First, there should be a nationwide registration of all golf clubs. . ." Echoing this wit, Guns suggested that...
...party at the Saratoga Golf Club. Even Marylou, as she has styled herself ever since she got to like the signature on her oil paintings, admitted that the big pearls might seem "too much" for just an afternoon tea dance. But if ever a gal needed a lift last week, it was Marylou...