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...tutting over the sneaking admiration Britons seem to feel for criminals these days, Britain's sobersided Justice of the Peace & Local Government Review set about de-mything the most admired sneaks of them all, Robin Hood and his merry men. "Friar Tuck is certainly no example of how a High Churchman should behave," sniffed the Review. Maid Marian was "certainly no 'Maid.' " As for Robin, he was simply "an outlaw who had deserted his lawful wife for fun and games in the greenwood with Marian...
...long sun after lunch. Their siestas are prolonged because the midday snow is apt to be mushy, because spring snow is harder to ski, and because fewer skiers and longer hours mean more skiing and more fatigue. At Mammoth Mountain, this may lead to an added pleasure. Skiers tuck wine bottles under their arms, trek ten miles down the valley to Hot Creek, where 100° water from underground springs pours into a wide gulch. There they can loll the rest of the day away, soaking and sipping beneath snow-covered slopes...
HAVING no "front page" for all the important stories, or any back pages in which to tuck away inconsequential news, we feel that all stories-whether about new books or old music-must compete for their share of our space, and jealous editors have a way of contending that the news of their field, whether science or Latin America or art, matters most...
Utilizing a retractable "variable-sweep" wing, the TFX will enable man to fly almost like a bird. To take off, soar and land, it will straighten its wings for maximum lift; in flight it will tuck its wings into its body, enabling it to dive and thrust like a falcon. Flying at more than twice the speed of sound, the two-man plane will range up to 3,000 miles with a load of nuclear-tipped missiles. The variable-sweep wing idea came from Aero-dynamist John Stack five years ago. when he was working for the Government. Big design...
...freshly cut enemy head between their knees-a ceremony that requires a new crop of heads each time. The headhunters, photographed in the same general territory where 23-year-old Michael Rockefeller was lost last year, wear skulls dangling from their necks as magic charms against evil, and they tuck skulls under their heads as pillows at night. Despite the archly ominous narration of the sound track, the headhunters prove curiously unsavage. Poling their dugout canoes like racing shells along the jungle streams, decked in white-feathered headdresses, and holding their spears in light-fingered readiness, they are pictorially...