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Cruising on Land. Thus equipped, the new breed of pioneers can gather around the old late show on TV, sleep beneath their toasty-warm electric blankets, and wake up to shave with plug-in razors while the coffee makers perk merrily away. If the old object of camping as a spartan way of getting back to nature has thereby been lost, it is beside the point...
...busted for arguing with a sergeant. Then, on a fiery slope near Bien Hoa in November 1965, Joel met Victor Charlie. As his platoon was devoured by enemy crossfire, and he himself took two slugs in the legs, Joel hobbled and crept through the holocaust to patch ripped chests, plug bottles of plasma into dangling arms, give bloody mouth-to-mouth resuscitation to corpses and wounded alike, shoot Syrettes of morphine into mangled men. He allowed himself only one Syrette for his own wounds, for fear that he might dull his mind and hamper his work. At dawn...
...their vast operation is typical of Canada's Expo initiators. From the moment in 1962 when International Exhibitions picked Montreal as the site for '67 (over Moscow, which showed early enthusiasm for an exhibition, then faded from contention), the Canadians began trying to achieve perfection. Principal spark plug was Montreal's dynamic mayor, Jean Drapeau, who buoyantly declared as the first-stage preparations began: "Montreal will not be plagued by lack of imagination...
...dramatize the importance of auto care, Getty provided specifics. "A single faulty spark plug," he wrote, "can add ?13 [$36.40] to the fuel bill for an average motorist's annual mileage of 7,400. Similarly, an engine filter choked with dirt can cost another ?6 in the course of a year; defective piston rings - ?5; faulty thermostat-?3; and incorrect ignition setting...
...ways and means of keeping the peace. In 1950, he gave the McDonnell Foundation $500,000 for just that purpose. A fervent backer of the United Nations, he not only observes the U.N.'s Oct. 24 birthday as a plant holiday but also buys full-page newspaper ads to plug his belief that all Americans should "give their time, talents and wealth in striving toward U.N. goals." At the same time, he remains convinced that the U.S. "will be criminally negligent if we wage peace except from a foundation of great strength." Accordingly, the April 4 anniversary of the North...