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...near by. Aboard one was Marilyn Wayne, a Beverly Hills commodities broker, who says she was anchored just 100 yds. from the Wagners. At about midnight, she says, "I could hear someone saying, 'Help me! Somebody help me!' " She claims the cries lasted for more than 15 min. and that from somewhere in the darkness came the answer: "Take it easy. We'll be over to get you." Why didn't Wayne try to help? Says she: "It was laid back. There was no urgency or immediacy in their shouts...
...when most film makers are retreating to the safety of Boys' Life remakes and lectures in High Humanism, Beatty has spent four years and a sum estimated at anywhere from $32 million to $57 million as producer, director, co-author and star of a 3-hr. 20-min. movie about a nearly forgotten American Communist and his troubled, tempestuous wife Louise Bryant. These Reeds never pretend to be ordinary people; this Reds boasts not a single mechanical toy as a major character. Reed's life said this: Not only can you hop the express train of history...
...yellow. The male "held a bright blue fruit in its bill and pointed it toward the female, so it could be seen against the background of its golden crest." The courting creature also emitted a series of odd cries while quivering its crest seductively. Diamond watched for 20 min utes, but "the male did not succeed and the female flew...
...knots, it was another picture-book landing on the hard-packed dirt of the dried lake bed at California's Edwards Air Force Base, where Columbia put down after her first sortie into space last April. As the ship touched down exactly 2 days, 6 hr., 13 min. and 10 sec. after the start of her globe-girdling flight, the pilot of a little chase plane said: "Welcome home." And the watching world, even the cool hands at Mission Control Center in Houston, breathed a collective sigh of relief...
...Sixteen min. later, after emerging from the blackout, Engle gave his machine the test pilot's ultimate accolade: "The bird is real solid. A good solid bird all the way." From Mission Control came a relieved reply: "Well, we love hearin' it." As Engle's bird approached California's Big Sur country, it was flying faster than a bullet-at ten times the speed of sound-and dropping like a rock, 20 times faster than a similar-size DC-9 jet on landing. Finally, it came out of the blue, a tiny, glistening white speck that...