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...steps on the Communist chart to take over a country" by taxing the middle class into impotence. "Our goal is to prevent world government," says Merwin K. Hart, president of the National Economic Council. "And we don't like fluoridation." "The United Nations," says Wichita Oilman Fred Koch, "was conceived by Communists in Moscow during World War II." Others believe that urban renewal is intended to wipe out the property rights of loyal American citizens, that integration is a deliberate program for the mongrelization of the nation...
CARROLL WILLIS Wichita, Kans...
...nation in a hurry, the results are impressive. Kansans, for example, can flip from Wichita to Topeka (137.7 miles) over the Kansas Turnpike in an hour and 50 minutes (v. 4½ hr. over the old 170.4-mile highway); Massachusetts truckers can make the New York State line from Boston in 159 minutes over the Massachusetts Turnpike (v. 245 minutes over Routes 9, 20 and 102); the 30-mile Dallas-Fort Worth Turnpike has cut travel time from 90 minutes to about 35. A New York state legislator can drive from Manhattan to Albany in less than three hours...
Sailplane pilots are part bird, too, who flock to competitions not so much for the trophies as for the 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...
Christmastime lovers nuzzle under plastic mistletoe, and brides are pelted with polyethylene orange blossoms. "It's got so that a girl only gets real flowers for her first corsage and at her funeral," says a Wichita florist. Some cemeteries forbid the use of fake flowers, not so much for reasons of taste as because they make it difficult to cut the grass. Other cemeteries have given in, allow plastic wreaths and sprays...