Word: hovercrafts
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...look skyward, expecting to see a low-flying airplane. Instead, shooting spray from all sides, an ungainly contraption speeds by on the nearby St. Lawrence River, carrying 38 passengers on one of the fair's most popular rides. For most visitors, it is their first glimpse of the hovercraft, a British amphibious vehicle that suspends itself on a cushion of air and skims with equal ease over land, ice or water...
...Winkle Them Out." The American reinforcements will have the benefit of some U.S. preparations. Twelve U.S. Special Forces camps have already been set up in the Delta. The U.S. Navy patrols its 2,500-mi. labyrinth of rivers and canals with 71 PT-type boats and three hovercraft. Along the coast, patrol boats of the Navy's Operation Market Time have cut down on Communist gunrunning. As elsewhere, it will be difficult to separate friend from foe-demonstrated last week when U.S. Air Force jets strafed and bombed a Delta hamlet near the village of Truong Trung...
...that greeted the passengers was not to be believed. Rumbling and banging down the street came a wave of empty kerosene drums propelled by perfectly straight-faced adults; a horde of children were bouncing large weather balloons on their heads. In the midst of the turmoil were two homemade Hovercraft, a foot above the ground, one ridden by a curvaceous brunette billed as "Liquid Hips," the other by a menacing figure in black plastic and World War I aviator's helmet known as "The Neutron...
None of the forecasters seem to have any good solution for the traffic problem, though they count on automated, and possibly underground, highways. McLuhan and others predict that both the wheel and the highway will be obsolete, giving way to hovercraft that ride on air. Planes carrying 1,000 passengers and flying just under the speed of sound will of course be old hat. The new thing will be transport by ballistic rocket, capable of reaching any place on earth in 40 minutes. In Rand's Delphi study, 82 scientists agreed that a permanent lunar base will have been...
...bound for Los Angeles, and Oakland Mayor John Houlihan stepped out onto the deck, shouting into a microphone: "Gentlemen, this has been a wonderful experience! We're really going to pioneer in this field." The mayor was inaugurating the first scheduled passenger service in the U.S. of a Hovercraft, the British-designed flying machine that rides above the ground on a cushion of compressed air, can skim both land and sea (provided there are no major hills or waves) at a brisk 85 m.p.h. This one had just floated over San Francisco Bay, scooted up a ramp without breaking...