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...chance to drift on the wind with others who share the love of the experience. Many of the entrants at Wichita also fly powered planes, e.g., 46-year-old Leonard Pratt, a Central Airlines captain, who took up sailing as an exhilarating change from the security-and the thunder-of piston flight. Another contestant, Gleb Derujinsky, 36, makes his living as a freelance fashion photographer...
...keep the sex in balance with the substance, the taste with the tasty; and Buddha himself -played by 23-year-old Rising Son Kojiro Hongo-will only appear in the flesh during the first segment of the film. After that, he becomes a ray of light, a murmur of thunder. The script even avoids mentioning the birth of the Enlightened One's child, but otherwise spares nothing: the cartoon bevies of sensual maidens who surround the young prince, the rape of his wife by his malevolent cousin Devadatta, the visions of seminude sorceresses who tempt him to turn from...
...from Helga Mauersberger, pictures by Klaus Winter and Helmut Bischoff; Franklin Watts; $3.95) rollicks through the cycle of the seasons in an anthropocentric spree. Miss Sunshine is the high-powered female producer of the solar show. Her problem actor is Cousin Rain, a climatological cut-up who releases Mr. Thunder and Mr. Lightning from their padlocked castle. Miss Sunshine's loyal ally is Mr. Rainbow, the official scene painter who slips about, brush in hand, to give beetle, butterfly and snail shell the appropriate hue of the season. The pixyish, Chagall-accented illustrations set the special tone...
Some of Khrushchev's recent thunder took the form of an astonishing remark to Britain's ambassador in Moscow, Sir Frank Roberts: he boasted that he had all Western Europe at his mercy. Only six hydrogen bombs would be needed to wipe out Britain, said Khrushchev, and nine more would take care of France as well...
...fate of Berlin by jeopardizing the communications . . . and the position of the American, British and French troops there . . . I proclaim once again that there is no chance of this being accepted." If Nikita Khrushchev really wants peace, declared De Gaulle, he will not get it "by making offstage thunder" to frighten the world...