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...once used peanut butter to the point that his sons dared him to shave with it; Barry did, "although I smelled like hell for a week." Later, on the nights when he is not out speaking, Goldwater may listen to records (New Orleans jazz) on a booming stereo rig he wired for himself, or settle down for some background reading. Current bedside choices: Herman Kahn's On Thermonuclear War, Plato's Republic...
...nationwide boating boom, Texas is now intent on becoming the top boating state in the U.S. Though national marine sales are down 14% from last year, boat sales in Texas are up 42%, outboard motor sales 55%. One out of every eight Texas families now owns a boating rig (national average: one family out of twelve...
...first bus pulled out for Jackson carrying twelve Freedom Riders, six National Guardsmen and 16 newsmen. Once out in the countryside, the bus was convoyed by three planes, two helicopters and 17 highway patrol cars. Bobby Kennedy followed the progress of the convoy by a special telephone rig that let him monitor police radio messages...
Died. Thurman A. Whiteside, 50, the wealthy, wheeling-dealing Florida lawyer acquitted last fall of conspiring with ex-Federal Communications Commissioner Richard A. Mack to rig a Miami television channel award; by his own hand (a gunshot wound); in Miami...
Belly & Head. The essentials of this system, plus a specially designed drill rig, got their first big test last fortnight when Cuss I, owned by Global Marine Exploration Co. and originally designed to drill oil wells in much shallower water, stationed herself off La Jolla, where the ocean is 3,140 ft. deep. Four outboard propellers driven by 200-h.p. engines churned the water fore and aft, but, according to plan, the ship did not move. Buoys moored 1,000 ft. away carried transponders to repeat sonar waves sent to them underwater. Pilot Ernie Cantu watched a sonarscope showing...