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Moss, 53, does not just design tents, he creates them. There is, for example, the pop tent he conceived while working as an artist for Ford Motor Co. in 1956 -a sort of mammoth umbrella that can be carried in a car, sets up in minutes and sleeps four. The pop tent became a bestseller, and Moss has been designing tents ever since. Then there is the O-dome, a 530-sq.-ft. tentlike house of plastic-coated paper he built for himself seven years ago on an island off Maine; there are now about 450 fiber-glass versions across...
...charge have twiddled the dials on their mixing console with a delicacy that would do credit to a concert pianist fingering his way through some Chopin filigree. Especially impressive is the handling of an aircraft carrier's flight-deck operation -from the first cough of the first motor to the roar of an entire squadron...
Deep in the Darien jungle of Panama last week, a long, pink cayuco (dugout canoe), propelled by an outboard motor, skimmed over the 150-ft.-deep waters of the newly formed lake. Spotting a floating tree trunk ahead, Tomas Perez, a Panamanian Indian, gave the motor full throttle, then lifted the propeller out of the water. The canoe slid easily over the log, hardly disturbing its other occupants, TIME correspondent Bernard Diederich and an odd assortment of caged animals. Following closely behind were two more cayucos manned by other Panamanians and a fiberglass boat carrying the project leader, U.S. Biologist...
...caliber pistols. Two more assassins, meanwhile, closed in on the blue official Fiat from which Coco had just emerged and pumped bullets into the police chauffeur. As the three victims lay dying, their killers vanished; two of them sped away down a labyrinth of alleys aboard a red Vespa motor scooter...
...persuade the banks to pump fresh money into his company. Meanwhile, he is trying to keep White rolling by cutting $38 million this year from operating costs. Among other things, he plans to shrink administrative and sales staffs and close a research-and-development facility. Even if White Motor goes under, there are rumors that several corporations might buy up pieces of the company, if the price were right. But for the moment, both Knudsen's and White's prospects look exceedingly black...