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Flag Gaffe. While Charles retained his princely cool, a personable, polished blend of animation and decorum, Anne was alternately aloof, bored, alert and quizzical, as befits her highly independent character. Aboard the sluggish presidential yacht Sequoia, which can do only nine knots-and whose crew made the colossal gaffe of flying the Union Jack upside down-she asked to transfer to a 60-m.p.h. Coast Guard launch for the Potomac cruise to Mount Vernon. At the Smithsonian, she was intrigued by the astronaut space suits, and asked U.S. Moonman Neil Armstrong: "Is there a danger of a rip?" Replied...
...what they call their "inspirational defense." One part heart and three parts hustle, the pressing defense drove the Lakers-and 19,500 wildly cheering fans in Madison Square Garden-into a near hysteria. The undersized Knicks skittered around the 7-ft. 1-in. Chamberlain like squirrels under a sequoia, forcing the shaky Lakers to throw the ball away 19 times. Final score: Knicks 107, Lakers...
...course he took, though, was a three-month Military Government course. Hubbard claims to be a nuclear physicist, but the closest he came in the academic world was the George Washington School of Engineering. He also claims to have a Ph. D. in Philosophy, awarded from a school called Sequoia in California. All clues indicate that Sequoia was the name of the Scientology Center in Los Angeles in the middle 50's, and that Hubbard awarded himself the degree. (Sequoia is not accredited by the state of California. Among its faculty, listed as Professor of Scientology, was L. Ron Hubbard...
Present plans call for selling diseased ponderosas to lumber companies and replacing them with nearly 70,000 giant Sequoia and sugar pine trees, which are thought to be more resistant to smog. Meantime, the smog rolls on, doubtless affecting the forest in other ways that are not yet known...
...ferried a panoply of kings, emperors, ambassadors and other important personages along the Potomac-but rarely a crowd like this. Two dozen youngsters, most of them from poor families around Washington, followed wide-eyed behind Pat Nixon on a tour of the 104-ft.-long vessel, now named Sequoia, as a Navy crew piloted them downstream on a two-hour voyage. It was the first of a series of 14 cruises the First Lady plans for children this summer. "I thought it could be put to better use," said she, dishing out soda pop and other goodies while a Marine...