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...sunny morning last week, 2,890 miles, 35 hr. 53 min., and one $250 traffic ticket away from East Side Manhattan's Red Ball Garage, Rick Cline and Jack May parked their pockmarked white Ferrari Dino in front of the Portofino Inn in Southern California's Redondo Beach. Having shaved one minute from the previous transcontinental record, the partners became undisputed holders of the 1975 Cannonball Baker Sea-to-Shining-Sea Memorial Trophy Dash...
...effort to get his Vietnamese wife and her six children out of the country. Another was former Serviceman Kenneth Cowan, who had left his wife and three children in Saigon when his tour of duty in Viet Nam ended two years ago. Now a helicopter repairman in Redondo Beach, Calif, Cowan took a month's leave from his job, sold his car, diving equipment and drums and flew back to Saigon to rescue his family. "My wife was worried about what the Communists might do to mixed kids," he said. "I just had to get them...
...Mobile Home finished in 51 hours, equipped with special racing tires, a chef, and 200 gallon gas tanks. The crew, while not sharing driving, had an intense poker game going on all across the Kansas heartlands, the Arizona desert, and into the first finishing point, a parking lot at Redondo Beach...
This dramatic scenario is no longer confined to the daydreams of imaginative exobiologists.* Last week technicians at TRW Inc. in Redondo Beach, Calif., were finishing two miniaturized laboratories that will be able to test Martian soil for evidence of life. Next August, in the climax to NASA'S $1 billion Project Viking, two unmanned spacecraft will be fired aloft from Cape Canaveral. After an eleven-month journey, the Viking ships will swing into orbit around Mars. Each will release a lander containing a life-seeking laboratory. After descending with the aid of parachute and braking rockets, the first sterilized...
...those convicted, Henry Hohenstein, vice president of a successful real estate investment business, had driven an hour and a half from Redondo Beach merely to observe the protest for an anti-IRS book he was working on. Appalled by the conspiracy charges, he said he had never laid eyes on Heck before the day of the demonstration. After the verdict, he reports, contributions began coming in from all over the country for his defense. Said one sympathetic Texas woman (who sent $5): "Good luck. I've dealt with those bastards before but I always lose...