Word: spotter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hostelry the Broadmoor. Legend has it that once a spotter with binoculars kept vigil in its tower, and when he cried, "Here come a bunch of Osages!", the rate on the bridal suite immediately was tripled, and the arriving oil-rich redskins always were installed there with sly but obsequious ceremony. Like most Western legends, this one is of dubious authenticity, but it is a fact that for close on to half a century, the sprawling Broadmoor, whose facilities meander over 5,000 acres just west of looming Pikes Peak, has attracted some millionaire Indians as well as a succession...
...recent cover story about the American fighting man in Viet Nam (April 23), an admirable member of the gallery of combatants was "Mac the Fac" - Air Force Major William W. McAllister, 36, a "forward air controller" who sought out Viet Cong troops and installations in his toylike L19 spotter plane...
MAJOR WILLIAM W. MCALLISTER, 36, is an Air Force careerman who, in his eleven months in Viet Nam, has become a legend as "Mac the Fac" (for "forward air controller"), flying a toylike L19 spotter plane and seeking out Viet Cong troops and installations. McAllister used to be a hot jet fighter pilot, won a D.F.C. in Korea. Now he flies slower, but has more...
...filthy beast is Gary Grant, somewhat whimsically cast as a Pacific island beach bum. World War II has begun, and Grant greets it with the disdain he might ordinarily show for a stale canape. Nevertheless, Australian Navy Commander Trevor Howard tricks him into a position as a plane spotter (code designation: Mother Goose) on a remote islet near New Guinea. Soon he has to rescue Caron and her seven giggling schoolgirl charges, who have fled the French consulate school at Rabaul...
...Packard roadster may be a ruinously expensive way of getting down to the supermarket. But esthetics have nothing to do with the new trend in the antique trade. Its name is "junk." True, it has to be out-of-the-ordinary junk. But to the expert spotter, every attic and old barn in the U.S. is a potential treasure-trove of salable detritus. The technique is summed up by a roadside secondhand store south of Santa Rosa, Calif., which advertises with unconscious wit: WE BUY JUNK. WE SELL ANTIQUES...