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...month by September. Price: $1,425. > For those who would rather hover than sink: a flying machine that never gets more than 9 in. off the ground. The Dobson Air Dart is a 95-lb. wheelless bug, 8 ft. long and 5 ft. wide, with a kayak-style cockpit and a zo-h.p. engine that drives a fan in the bug's nose. The fan supports the vehicle on a column of air by the same principle as the larger air-supported vehicles under development for military and commercial transportation. Designed strictly for fun, the Dart can whoosh...
...Colorado school, 14th in the world, was promoted by F. Charles Froelicher, 35, founder of Denver's Colorado Academy, and the only headmaster with an earned reputation for doing an Eskimo roll in a kayak . Director of the new school is William McK. Chapman, 56, a onetime newsman and schoolmaster. Chief Instructor is Ernest Tapley, 37, a veteran teacher of Army mountain troops in Colorado. The school has noted backers, including former Secretary of State Christian Herter, Headmaster John M. Kemper of Phillips Academy, and President Henry P. Van Dusen of Union Theological Seminary...
...summer sun beat down on Europe last week, there was the perceptible rumbling of Germans on the move. By car, canoe, and kayak, the advance guard of 1.2 million German campers in Lederhosen and halters swarmed all over Europe in an annual migration that has made the German camper Europe's most ubiquitous tourist and unseated the camera-toting American as the most unwelcome guest. Said a Cologne industrialist at his campsite: "I look upon camping as a denial of the materialism that has sprung up in Germany. Outdoors we can turn our backs on our material gains...
...weekday travel. Six million of them get to work and back home by auto, 450,000 by train, 3,550,000 by bus, subway or rapid transit. Others ingeniously make the trip by airplane, helicopter, bicycle, motor scooter, powerboat and, in the case of one hardy California commuter, by kayak...
...years at Brown University, Dr. Theodore P. Cotter of Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory learned to love sailing in New England waters, and he still sails a folding kayak on Colorado lakes. At Los Alamos he was assigned to N Division, which works on the knotty problem of providing nuclear propulsion for spaceships. He began to think about the great solar "wind," the sun's radiation blowing outward through the solar system, and how this solar wind might be used to drive a space vessel...