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...joined into long jangly curtains, there is a definite limit to the practical re-use of junk. Beyond that point, people invent "junque" art. At the Whole Earth Marketplace in Encino, Calif., eggbeaters plus scraps of waste metal become amusingly stylized model helicopters. New York Literary Agent Peter Matson unabashedly makes collages of stained rags, and paints multishaped polyurethane packing crates, which he duly frames and hangs. "It is a creative act," he says. "It also seems a way to make technology work for me rather than vice versa...
Though the U.S. flag is disappearing from Atlantic liners, it lingers on in the Pacific. Four American ships still cruise from San Francisco and Los Angeles to southwest Pacific islands. Alaska and Mexico, but Matson Navigation Co. is unloading its two passenger ships on another line and going full steam into freight. The Government senses that the era of luxury liners is over: the Merchant Marine Act of 1970 finances the construction of 300 new merchant ships in the next decade, but does not even mention the passenger business...
Weathier tourists are seeking more recondite or merely more ostentatious excursions. At the end of May, the Matson Lines' Monterey sailed from San Francisco with passengers who had paid from $1,510 to $4,565 to visit the Galapagos Islands, where Charles Darwin once pondered the origin of species. Los Angeles' Hemphill Travel Service offers a" 32-day round-the-world tour for 60 people flying in a chartered Convair 990 with stops in Copenhagen, Malagasy. New Guinea and other lands. The fare is $9,960. Lindblad Travel. Inc., which spec;alizes in the exotic, has organized tours...
...shot put, Benka had to fight some of the toughest competition in the meet. Winner Carl Salb of Kansas set a new meet record of 66' 3/4", bettering Randy Matson's old record by almost three feet. Kansas stars also swept second and third places with heaves of 61' and 60 9 1/2", compared to Benka...
Canning disagrees sharply. "I think our position was that of a catalyst. We speeded up the reactions of people on both sides. We received support from the basketball team, the fencing team, the gymnastics team, and Hal and Olga Connolly. On the other hand, there were Randy Matson and Bob Seagren, who saw us as Berkeley radicals. They felt you represent the red, white, and blue for Grandma and apple pie and that...