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...particular Navy surveillance satellite program is so secret that officials are not even supposed to utter its code name, Project Whitecloud, over the telephone. Yet at NASA's Johnson Space Center gift shop in Houston, souvenir envelopes decorated with detailed drawings of the satellite, clearly labeled PROJECT WHITECLOUD, had been on sale at $1 apiece for years. The envelopes even explained how the satellite dispensed three smaller craft in 700-mile-high orbits to scan the ocean, monitoring "shipboard radar and communications signals." It was hardly a hot seller: only about 35 had been purchased since...
NASA said it has nothing to do with the souvenir and declined to comment on whether Project Whitecloud, first launched in 1976, is a continuing operation. As it turns out, the envelope designer was no great intelligence sleuth. Robert Rank of Union City, N.J., a supervisor for the New York City social-services department and freelance souvenir maker, believes he found the model for his envelope sketch and the description of Whitecloud in a 1976 issue of Aviation Week & Space Technology...
...Billy Whitecloud, of Chief Jay Strongbow sidekick fame, offers, "I have finally come to terms with myself. I have an identity now, I'm my own woman. I think EVERYONE should...
Think of that. It's enough to blow the wazoo right out of Peter Pan's Almanac. Tarnation Vides, what a line. If the Reverend Billy Whitecloud says "EVERYONE should do it," then this reporter is impressed...
LOVE WITH A WHITE GIRL). An Indian cocktail waitress named Mary Whitecloud lives for her basic-black Volkswagen done all over in marvelous primitivist scenes. Other cars are flags, dollar bills, insects and painted faces coming at you on the freeway. John Livingston, Hollywood designer, had to have a car all his own, unique, so he stripped a Chrysler down to its frame and hand-built his own shiny aluminum body held together by crude rivets; the car is pointed at the ends like a silver Buck Rogers rocket ship -enough to frighten drivers off the road on Santa Monica...
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