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Suddenly Steeves felt a sharp explosion. The cockpit filled with smoke. Working methodically by the numbers from the training manual, he jettisoned his canopy, blew himself out by the ejection rig, pulled the cord on his parachute. Down, down he swayed toward the Sierra's peaks. Up, up they came in sharpness, ruggedness, meanness. He landed hard on a 12,000-ft.-high slope, spraining his ankles as he hit one of the few rocks in sight. Coolly he measured the stillness around him, took inventory of his assets: a .32-cal. revolver, a knife and some book matches...
...Good? Whatever happens to the cost of stereo tapes, the price of a stereo rig-inevitably including two amplifiers and two speakers-is always likely to be higher than that of a conventional monaural setup. A stereo rig can easily run into many hundreds of dollars, but for the less well-heeled tape fan, manufacturers are pushing portable models in the $200-$300 bracket...
Arizona-born Singer Robbins, also 31, and like Husky a Nashville Opry singer, has climbed the sales charts with a recording of an original composition, White Sport Coat (and a Pink Carnation) on Columbia, which bewails the loss of a girl for whom the rig was intended. When he is not before the radio mikes, Robbins carries this and other throat-huskers out to the country trade in an old Greyhound bus with bunks and a built-in shower. And a shower to sing in is just what his voice needs...
...Girard, sitting on his back with his face to the sky. started its powerful jet engines. As the roaring exhaust hit the pavement below, a spray of dirt and melted tar boiled into the air. When the X-13 became airborne, Pilot Girard maneuvered it off its suspension rig and free of the framework. Then he flew it upward like a deliberate rocket and made a gradual pushover to normal level flight...
...Caterpillar Tractor's side-dumping bucket for crawler tractors. Unlike other buckets, it rests on the end of the rig, can tilt to 60° right or left, deliver load to truck without having tractor turn to dump...