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...fitting across the back. I ignored the better-dressed people, and tried to justify my past actions by deciding the poorly dressed ones were the Christians." But by the time Billy Graham had reached the last words of his "invitation," Jim Vaus had stumbled over to the prayer tent and fallen on his knees. To Reach the Unreached. Since then, Wiretapper Vaus has been Evangelist Vaus. Following the footsteps of his fundamentalist preacher father, he travels from pulpit to pulpit in a panel truck with $18,000 worth of electronic equipment. He sets it up in churches, and rivets
...burros, rabbits, and ducks appear and disappear with Blackstone's aid. He has had to abandon, however, the most astounding of his stunts, the vanishing elephant. The beast was too big for road trips. A horse proved more mobile. With Blackstone in the saddle, the horse galloped into a tent which then collapsed. When the tent was removed, their stood the magician with the saddle in his hand. Years ago when he visited Cairo, the vanishing horse became a disappearing camel...
...Francisco, the Steinhart Aquarium was planning to package an octopus in an oxygen tent for a flight to Manhattan. The intended purpose: a four-minute appearance on NBC's Home TV show...
...steel, all-purpose boat that looks like a shallow square box on pontoons has been developed by Trail-Craft Corp. of Clarksburg, W. Va. Designed for use with an outboard motor, the boat weighs 230 lbs., can carry 750 Ibs. as a trailer, and also converts into a tent for four, a duck blind, a wading pool, a swimming raft. Price (including tent top and four cots...
...double premise that one's destiny is inescapable, regardless of what steps are taken to change it, and that it is possible to see the future in a crystal-ball. Both points are in earnest, since Samarkand is not, strictly, a comedy. Having placed the scene in a circus tent, the authors call on some deft maneuvering by designer Ben Edwards to shift the setting, on a momentarily darkened stage, so that everyone can watch the future...