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Oregon's Republican Governor Mark Hatfield, 40, left Salem at 6 a.m., drove to Portland for a quick speech to railway workers. Then he was off for a 351-mile drive to Baker (pop. 9,986), in sparsely settled, heavily Democratic eastern Oregon, for a typical round of small-town campaigning-an inspirational speech on civic virtue to the local high school assembly, a handshaking tour of an industrial plant (''Hatfield's the name, nice to see you again"), a visit with the editor of the local weekly, a talk to the Powder River Sportsmen...
...strange craft lurched down the runway at De Havilland's Airfield in Hatfield, England, until it reached almost 20 m.p.h. Then the pilot pulled back on his handlebar control, and the plane glided all of 8 ft. into the air. Sweating profusely, 39-year-old John Wimpenny quit pedaling, and Puffin-so named because of all the puffing it took to get it in the air-wafted back to earth...
Wimpenny, a De Havilland aerodynamicist, has been experimenting with man-powered flight ever since the '40s. Two years ago, after Kremer offered his prize money, Wimpenny organized the Hatfield Man Powered Aircraft Club and designed Puffin. Spars were made from spruce. The plane's framework was covered with a plastic film one three-thousandth of an inch thick. As it took shape in a hangar, Puffin's fuselage grew to 20 ft., its wings spread out for 84 ft. Practicing in the cockpit, Wimpenny took the classic pose of a racing cyclist-body bent forward, hands...
...Oregon, Republican Governor Mark Hatfield, 39, has squelched intraparty feuding, has drawn able young men into party leadership, has demonstrated his belief that labor and academic groups can be lured to the G.O.P. by vigorously courting both...
Divorced. By Benjamin Franklin Fairless, 71, brisk, outspoken board chairman of U.S. Steel until his 1955 retirement: Hazel Hatfield Fairless, 61. Fairless' second wife (they were married after her daughter married his son), whom he charged with "indignities"' kept secret by the court; after 17 years of marriage; in Greensburg...