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...become the most up-to-date tool for crop dusting, spraying, seeding, fertilizing; on giant ranches, one copter can do the work of 18 cowboys herding cattle. One New Orleans copter taxi operator ferries 180,000 oil workers a year to offshore rigs. The U.S. Forest Service blows out woodland fires with the downdraft from whirling rotors. New York Mayor John Lindsay is having a $3,000 helipad built in the East River beside his official home, Gracie Mansion, so he can whisk above the perpetual traffic snarls to fires, crashes-and his city hall office...
Staggered Sabbath. The Rev. William Steel, pastor of seven-year-old Woodland Hills Methodist Church in a suburb of Los Angeles, also has a well-to-do congregation: professional men, business executives and aerospace technicians and their families. Instead of going into debt to build a bigger church for the rapidly growing congregation, Woodland Hills has tried a "staggered Sabbath," with services on weekday nights. Steel encourages parishioners to argue back after sermons, while trying to instill in them the need for a Christian response to what he calls "the challenge of the real...
...Woodland Hills, reality came with the Watts riots last August. The church was the first in the Los Angeles area to organize a food drive for riot victims, has since set up, in cooperation with Brother James Mims's Fundamentalist Negro Bible church near Watts, the Willowbrook Job Corporation, which has found jobs for 177 people and opened up communication between members of the two parishes. Steel, says one parishioner, "showed us that the church is only a place where we go for an hour to rehearse for a meeting with God in the world the other 167 hours...
Millions of acres of woodland and meadowland were taken to make way for highways, shopping centers and regimented rows of crackerbox housing. The result was in too many cases a voracious sprawl of "slurbs," combining the worst elements of city and country. It is a fact of life that suburban houses are far more comfortable than most inner-city dwellings. But the suburbs have spawned their own problems of burgeoning school populations, transit, highways, hospitals, sewage and water supplies...
Died. Buster Keaton, 70, "the Great Stone Face" of the silent screen; of lung cancer; in Woodland Hills, Calif. (see SHOW BUSINESS...