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...Pitching a tent used to be akin to struggling with an octopus. Now Moss Tents of Ann Arbor, Mich. (P.O. Box 54), has produced the Bubble Tent, which can be zipped effortlessly into place in H min. flat. Carried in an 8-ft. tube attached to the station-wagon rack, it pulls out in one move, pops open like an umbrella, stays aloft by means of fiber glass poles, and sleeps four in airy, mosquito-proof comfort. Cost...
Died. Joseph Robert Rupley, 24, California Peace Corpsman stationed in Venezuela since last September; of a bullet wound inflicted when trigger-happy Caracas plainclothes policemen mistook him and three fellow corpsmen for Communist terrorists, shot out the tires on their station wagon when they ignored an order to stop, then fired point-blank when the Americans climbed out with their hands up, hitting Rupley in the heart and critically wounding David Glover, 25, of Grosse He, Mich., in the stomach...
Used to transport graduate students who have classes at different schools on the same day, the service consists of chartered Checker Cab limousines and a Falcon station wagon, running every hour on the half hour, Monday through Friday...
...their ghoulishness but for "suggestive humor and double-meaning dialogue." Peyton Place, says NAFBRAT, is "an obvious exploitation of the sordid and tasteless elements of the Grace Metalious novel, a monument to the network's search for ratings, regardless of the social impact of unrelieved sex and sin." Wagon Train is knocked for its "extremes in sadism and brutality," and Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea because it "stirs up political hatred...
Floating Ancestors. One grisly-funny story tells of Great-Grandfather Thomas Ordway, blinded at Shiloh, who dug up all the Ordway graves in Tennessee and loaded headstones, kegs of bones, and the living members of his family together in an ox-drawn wagon to come to Texas-and of how the wagon was flooded crossing the Red River, sending the tombstones to the bottom while the kegs floated off downstream. Most remarkable of all is the story of Sam Ordway himself and his half-year search throughout Texas for his little son Ned who was stolen away by a neighbor...