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...plane, as designed, measures 107 feet from wingtip to wingtip and has a small, one-man fuselage. The wing frames are built from balsa wood covered with saran wrap, while the leading edges are constructed of "foamulum," a newly invented light-weight aluminum compound resembling styrofoam in appearance. In all, without a pilot, the plane weighs 119 pounds...
...favor. During the first months of his firm's operation, he held his job as production chemist at Chicago's Fuller Products Co., a black-owned cosmetics firm. He moonlighted nights and weekends, making the hair straightener in a rented place. Then he hustled as a one-man sales force through the city's black barbershops, and soon his swings took him to Indianapolis, Detroit and beyond. Working the black ghettos, he never needed research to pinpoint his sales area. "I knew how to find it," Johnson says wryly. "Go to any strange town and just follow...
...such determined scramblings down the tree of life, E.M. Cioran, 59, has made himself into a kind of one-man cult of the culdesac: the king of the pessimists in a bumper year for pessimists. Cioran's recent book of essays-"fragments" he likes to call them-threatens with success a man whose first principle is to hold success in contempt. See the chapter on "Fame: Hopes and Horrors...
...admirably conveyed by Jack MacGowran in the Works of Samuel Beckett. A fellow Irishman, MacGowran can claim a friendship and affinity with Beckett attested to by a BBC play, Eh, Joe, specifically written for him by the Nobel-prizewinning playwright. With a seamless unity MacGowran has assembled a one-man reading session, principally from Beckett's novels (Malone Dies, Molloy, The Vnnameable) and plays (Waiting for Godot, Krapp's Last Tape, Endgame). Cloaked in a black-spattered coffin of a coat, head and body shaken with keening tremors, and eyes stony with grief, MacGowran is the symbol...
...Timothy Leary seems to be turning into a one-man Diaspora. Since he escaped from a minimum-security prison in California, where he was serving a one-to-ten-year sentence on a pot rap, the former Harvard psychologist and LSDemon has been hustled in and out of Arab airports by unsympathetic authorities. In Algiers they canceled his announced press conference with Black Panther Eldridge Cleaver. Leary and three traveling companions next surfaced in Beirut. They were supposed to "study the methods of the Palestinian revolutionaries," but neither Jordan nor Syria would have them. Cairo let them stay overnight...