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...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...
Weight of Evidence. In London, after her auto turned turtle, outsized (217 Ib.) Housewife Pat Wilkins was fined $28 for reckless driving despite her explanation: "I'm really a very careful driver, but there was just so much weight on one side of the car that it overturned...
Born. To Marge (32) and Gower (35) Champion, agile, effervescent Broadway and Hollywood dance team; a son, their first child; in Los Angeles. Name: Gregg Ernest. Weight: 6 Ib...
...flight. As it yowled along at 22,000 to 25,000 ft. it was a thing of demonic beauty; with its 100-ft. swept-back wings, its slender 134-ft. hull and its four Allison J-71 jet engines, the seagoing bomber was capable of carrying a 30,000 Ib. pay load to 40,000ft. heights and at speeds over 600 m.p.h. Then, in an instant, the plane burst into flames, went out of control into a steep dive, crashed in a field near Wilmington, Del. The four-man civilian crew parachuted to safety...
...South Dakota, where well-rounded Republicanism has sent G.O.P. Senators to Washington for 20 years, a farm revolt threatened mild-mannered Incumbent Francis Case. Pressing hard on Case in a tight battle was burly (6 ft. 2 in., 235-Ib.) Kenneth Holum, 43-year-old farmer-turned-politician...