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...week was able to mount a 44-plane air force for its annual flyin, put on a dazzling display of aerial stunts, precision landings, and simulated bombing with colored flour sacks. The gyrocopters came as plain or fancy as the owners could afford, but all were equipped with a pusher engine, one rudder, one rotor blade, and a single seat with steering stick. The gas tank holds six gallons, good for about an hour's flight. The craft can rise to an altitude of two miles, but most flyers preferred to stay under...
...children of a taciturn Kansas farmer, Parks began his search at 16, when his mother died and his family scattered. He worked as a busboy and a waiter, a piano player in a Minneapolis whorehouse and a janitor in a Chicago flophouse, a runner for a Harlem dope pusher, a dining-car waiter and a lumberjack for the Civilian Conservation Corps. He was so poor that he often slept on trolley cars, and he regularly raided trash barrels for discarded newspapers so that he could check the classifieds for jobs...
...Harvard swimming team will travel to Providence to meet perennial pusher Brown tonight at 8 p.m. The Bruins have not beaten the Crimson in years and were lambasted earlier this season by Yale and Princeton. Brown is in a different class, devoting a substantial portion of its schedule to aquatic jousts with weaker teams like Amherst and M.I.T...
...nchez' appealingly altered portrait of a young junkie and dope pusher evokes sympathy mainly by pushing the film's thesis that most such cases stem from "lack of affection." Producer-Director Jerónimo Mitchell Melendez ignores complex social and psychological factors when he suggests that most addicts turn to the needle to tranquilize Oedipal anguish. But despite his sociological hokum, he projects a sordid milieu with grim documentary accuracy...
...NARCOTICS. He urged 24-hour surveillance of every known pusher, earlier identification of teen-age users, community clinics for those seeking advice, a city hospital exclusively for addicts...