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...Army choppers, fearful that VNAF pilots may lose their way. Fortnight ago a VNAF helicopter carrying U.S. newsmen got temporarily but totally lost over unfamiliar terrain in South Viet Nam. In another case, a VNAF pilot casually chalked map coordinates to his destination on the outside of his chopper windshield, only to find himself forced to try to read them backwards from the inside of his ship during flight...
Design Teacher Jay Baldwin lives with his domemate Kathleen in a totally transparent dome in the Santa Cruz mountains. "At first," says Baldwin, "people say, 'Far out, you live in a transparent dome.' But for us it becomes just like the windshield of a car. You get unaware of it ... it just keeps out cold and rain...
...three or four times, looking at it very closely. Finally he gets hold of the door, and bang! He ripped the door right off! God! How the man done it, I don't know! He jumped in there, and bang goes the other door. Bang goes the windshield. He rips the top with the heel of his shoe. He wrecked the car as much as he could...
Grisly Specter. Substantiating that theory, police found a typewritten, misspelled note under the windshield wiper of Dr. Ohta's Rolls-Royce. "Hallowween 1970," it read. "Today World War III will begin as brought to you by the people of the free universe. From this day forward anyone and/or company of persons who misuses the natural environment or destroys same will suffer the penalty of death by the people of the free universe." The note was signed with fortuneteller tarot-card names, one name to a line: "Knight of Wands, Knight of Cups, Knight of Pentacles, Knight of Swords...
GEORGE WALLACE. "All energy and strut . . . he has the dingy attractive air of a B-movie idol, the kind who plays a handsome garage attendant . . . He gives little-boy salutes, snapped off at the end, Wash-your-windshield...