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...these things, plus ice to suck and fruit to munch, he will soar hawklike for hours on invisible fountains of air, wrapped in a silence so absolute that he can hear the faint whistle of a train passing below. Last week, in the 28th annual national soaring championships at Wichita's municipal airport, the pick of the U.S.'s 2,500 sailplane pilots were living the good life high above the Kansas plains...
...contestants at Wichita needed thermals-columns of warm air-to stay aloft and they knew just how to find them. Towed to 2,000 ft. by powered aircraft, the sailplaners looked first for a "salad bowl"-a cluster of rising sailplanes already airborne and circling slowly, as if stirred by some giant ladle. Failing that, the entrants looked for the big cotton bolls of cumulus clouds-the typical sign of updrafts-or for wheeling hawks, those skillful natural riders of the wind. Having hooked a thermal, the sail-planers got from it every last inch of altitude, then drifted...
...record 5,900, including facilities provided by 29 national parks and 152 national forests. ¶Sears, Roebuck's camping equipment sales are up 40% since 1956; its sales of rubberized mattresses alone have risen 700% in a single year. The Coleman Co. of Wichita. Kans., one of the biggest suppliers in the country, has already registered its highest sales in company history for the first four months of 1961 - and this after a 400% climb in ten years. ¶The U.S. Forest Service, which in 1957 launched "Operation Outdoors" in an effort to keep up with ever-blossoming outdoorsmen...
JANE C. HARRIS Wichita, Kans...
Currently Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at the University of Wichita, Miss. Habin graduated from Carleton College in 1931 and received a Ph.D. in English from the University of Kansas...