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...year-old Sir Francis Chichester sailed slowly back toward England under foresails and mizzen, his mainsail furled -out of the 54-ship transatlantic race that began June 17. So weak from a blood disease that he had been virtually carried on board the 57-ft. Gipsy Moth V, Sir Francis was out of radio contact for several days. An R.A.F. search plane, which finally spotted him off the Spanish coast some 600 miles south of England, queried by blinker light if he needed help, and the old sailor flashed back: "I have been ill. No rescue...
...gossip column. It read: 'Woody Allen says he ate at a restaurant that had O.P.S. prices-over people's salaries.' " Dreadful by any standards, and thus ideal for the likes of Winchell, Ed Sullivan and Earl Wilson, whose columns ate up more material than the gypsy moth caterpillar. Allen placed a dozen lines at a time. Their frequency, if not their quality, caught the notice of a pressagent named Dave Alber, who signed up Woody, then 17, to write japes for other people's credit. "Every day after school," he remembers, "I would take the subway...
...Stockholm conference has approved a global system for the monitoring of pollution. Next month, as a forerunner of such a system, the U.S. plans to launch an experimental satellite, known as ERTS (for Earth Resources Technology Satellite). A stubby, 1,965-lb. package that resembles an overgrown moth, the satellite will be equipped with three television cameras, a multi-wave-length sensor and a data collection system that can relay environmental information from as many as 1,000 automatic monitoring stations on earth. If the test is successful, ERTS-type orbiters could be used to sound an alarm whenever there...
...early '30s he drifted into the theater, a diffident moth seeking the flame of dramatic imagination. He found it in the 19-year-old Orson Welles, a pillar of fire to make the physicists in the sands of Alamogordo blanch. Together they founded the Mercury Theatre, which in 1938 staged four brilliant hits in a single season...
Richard L. Alfred '74--who filed suit last month for $400--claims that a salesman refused to sell him Death of the Moth by Virginia Woolf when Alfred discovered three letters in the back of the book written by the authoress...