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...There was Ben Franklin, of course, with his handkerchief, his key and his lightning bolt, and if Orville and Wilbur Wright had not been kiting enthusiasts, a Russian might have invented the airplane after all. But the adult U.S. male who shows up at the park with kite and twine is certain to be suspect unless he has a passel of kids in tow. And there is something definably foreign about the doughty Somerset Maugham hero who preferred to rot in jail rather than pay his ex-wife alimony-all because she had smashed his favorite kite...
...with the ribbons of concrete and macadam that twine and tunnel through the U.S. Superhighways are a brand-new form of functional art, with elements that differ from the construction of any roads in history. The wrong kind of curve can be dangerous when one is moving at more than a mile a minute, and no curve at all can be lethal. The new art-science of freeway design forms the most original section of a new book called Man-Made America, by Planners Christopher Tunnard and Boris Pushkarev (Yale...
Presumably, the Observer is also needed by people who want a history of golf, pictures of a tame owl and a two-ton ball of twine, old Roman verse (a stanza from Lucilius), and a Page One story about Chinese cookery in London...
TARIFFS. In his message to Congress on the balance-of-payments deficit, the President warned that "a return to protectionism is not a solution." In a loud hint to tariff raisers, Kennedy later refused to increase duties on imported twine and cordage. As a Senator from the twine-producing state of Massachusetts, Kennedy had testified in favor of higher cordage tariffs before the Office of Defense Mobilization...
...packed into the wilds of Lower Lipstick Lake, 250 miles north of San Francisco and less than four miles from the ranch house of Boyd's friend J. D. Proctor. With them they carried salt, an ax, five knives, 50 ft. of nylon rope, toothbrushes, a ball of twine and-for emergencies-a sealed rifle, a flashlight and a first...