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Whatever the real objective, the Navy did test the concept both in wind tunnels and off 1,000-ft.-high Hurricane Mesa in Utah. As expected, the Navy's flying saucers always soared beautifully-when they were unloaded. But when they had to carry any significant extra weight they fell flat on their faces. Conclusion: the Frisbee's lift-to-drag ratio was insufficient for the vehicle to support a working flare. Back to the drawing board...
...even more frivolous than the usual Leone. The action, of which there is the customary abundance, takes place in Mexico during the waning days of the revolution. Rod Steiger swaggers through various robberies as a goodhearted, simple-minded bandido whose fondest dream is to knock over the bank in Mesa Verde. He gets his chance when he meets with James Coburn, who plays a fugitive I.R.A. revolutionary. How Coburn got from the Emerald Isle to Mexico, or why he is a fugitive, is left totally unexplained in the best Leone tradition. Coburn does put in his first appearance riding...
Doctors at the Fairview State Hospital in Costa Mesa, Calif., have adapted a musical teaching method to help develop language skills. In one exercise, the youngsters sit in a circle and chant...
...only other sizable military force in the gulf-one converted seaplane tender and two destroyers of the U.S. Middle East Force-refused to intervene in the seizure. Partly mollified by the Shah's offer of $3,600,000 a year to Sharjah for oil rights on Abu Mesa, the Union of Arab Emirates has tacitly accepted Iran's conquest. Ras al Khaima, however, has so far angrily refused to join the federation, although it is expected...
Died. Carl T. Hayden, 94, the quiet, influential Arizonan whose 57 years in Congress set a record; in Mesa, Ariz. Hayden once remarked that his four-vote defeat in a college election caused him to run scared ever after. He became the state's first Congressman in 1912 and served eight terms in the House and seven more in the Senate before retiring in 1969. A Democrat who preferred cloakroom bargaining to Senate-floor oratory, Hayden became chairman of the Appropriations Committee and doggedly supported bills for Arizona land reclamation, road construction and power development...