Word: kit
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...aircraft does not have to be certified or inspected. (The ultralight grew out of the hang glider and, so far, has been regarded benevolently by the Federal Aviation Administration as a motorized kite.) One of the most popular models, the Weedhopper, costs less than $5,000 in kit form and can be assembled like a Tinkertoy in eight to ten hours. It then can be partly disassembled to be carried on a cartop to the takeoff point. The Weedhopper has a rudder and elevator controlled by a stick; there are no pedals. A floating-disc speed indicator is the only...
...occasional necessity. Sometimes, too, war puts the highest technology at the service of the lowest impulses. It is the sheer technology today that tears loose the wiring of our consciences-the knowledge that in another year or two or three, almost any country with a backyard plutonium kit will be dealing in apocalypse. Despairing, we send our children back to their Atari and Intellivision electronic zapping games: those may be the playing fields of Eton...
...athletic department found John Wentzell, a former assistant baseball coach at Clark and Springfield Colleges, to replace Kit Morris and take charge of this year's team...
Thomas chose such anonymity because he had become an instant personality. He was, no less, the man who had finally solved the mystery of Masquerade. That fantasy for children by British Author-Painter Kit Williams has been a surprise bestseller for almost three years (1.5 million copies in eight languages). Climaxing a feverish 18-month hunt, Thomas had dug up the $10,000 bejeweled golden rabbit in Ampthill Park, Bedfordshire...
...During a 1970 campaign swing, a reporter called out to [Rockefeller] as he boarded his plane, 'Hey, Governor, there's more than your image showing.' Indeed, the seat of his trousers had split... 'Get me the sewing kit.' Sitting unselfconsciously in his shorts, he sewed up the seam... while reporters and staff first gaped, then cheered as he completed the rescue. He looked up with the smile of one who knows he has pleasantly startled. 'See. I went to a progressive school...