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...some raffish first-act comedy, and very fitfully thereafter, when Wendy Hiller and Franchot Tone give urgency to O'Neill's clouded scenes, or give a face to his sense of lostness, A Moon stirs to life. But mostly it lies dead; and something a little too decent in everyone's basic motives makes A Moon soft as well as enfeebled. There is no tumble and toss of sick, bitter, angry, thwarted, even petrified emotions. Everywhere there is a sense of O'Neill's honest compassion, but nowhere is there anything incandescently imagined or inextinguishably...
...Portable Helicopter. A collapsible, 250-Ib. helicopter that can be dropped by parachute and reassembled by one man in about ten minutes was announced by the Navy. The one-man rotorcycle, which is held together by easily released pins, was developed by Hiller Helicopters of Palo Alto, Calif...
...Corp.'s "Flying Platform" ($13.95), a tiny, gas-engine replica of the Navy's one-man Hiller Platform (TIME, April 18, 1955), takes off vertically and hovers...
...maximum speed of 65 m.p.h. and a 150-mile range. The infantryman standing on its small platform controls vertical motion and speed with motorcycle-type handlebars, guides the direction of flight by leaning in the direction he wants to go. The Army is also negotiating with Hiller Helicopters, Inc. for some Flying Carpets (TIME, April 18), which use a ducted air fan rather than helicopter blades for propulsion...
...next three finishers were all Crimson runners. In order, they were Bill Thompson (15:10), John Demos (15:17), and Al Gordon (15:18). Hiller's performance in beating out Thompson was particularly noteworthy, since last week the Yardlings took the first eight places in defeating Boston University...