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...balmy evening last week, a young man was flying his box kite in a posh residential neighborhood to the northeast of Santa Barbara, Calif. Suddenly the kite swooped into power lines, causing a short circuit that showered sparks and ignited the drought-dried chaparral below. Whipped by winds of up to 40 m.p.h., the blaze roared down the hills on a one-mile front toward the coastal city (pop. 73,000). Said one awed witness: "Homes went up with a huge whoosh and puff. Palm trees exploded like Roman candles...
...male sexuality, so I just distributed the questionnaire with that in mind." But when she began to realize that the male survey would make a book in itself, she added "really important" questions. For example, she wondered: "Are men really aroused after orgasm, or could they not care less?" Kite's way of phrasing is part of the problem. She had to revise her questionnaires for The Hite Report three times. The male version has already been reworked once...
...Miss Kite's unnatural obsession with the clinical mechanics of sex [Oct. 25] leaves me with nothing more than a grimy feeling and a slightly squeamish stomach...
...reverently ensconced in the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum. The Emett Vintage Car of the Future, dedicated to the Spirit of Future Retrogression, is installed at Chicago's Museum of Science and Industry, and a new suburban Cleveland shopping mall proudly displays his Featherstone-Kite Openwork Basket-Weave Mark Two Gentleman's Flying Machine with its unique autopilot FRED (Freehand Remembering Empirical Doodling system). Starting this month, the makers of Wall-Tex wall coverings will bring Emett's wry whatsits and dotty doodads into the American home with prepasted wallpapers celebrating the inventions...
...like an angel in a mandorla of color. No athlete himself, Delaunay was fascinated by organized spectator sport-itself a "modern" phenomenon. Its sense of disciplined energy appealed to him, and in the various versions of The Cardiff Team, he set forth a compendium of favorite images: the box-kite biplane in the sky, the Tower, a Ferris wheel, a bright yellow bill board for an aircraft-manufacturing firm named Astra and the joyously leaping rugby players...