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WHAT A WAY TO TRAVEL This car is doing 100 miles an sweeping mines. The two 2,100-h.p. piston engines easily lift
hour and isn't using any gas at ail. Ii's suspended by sky- the 3,450-pound car over me Connecticut countryside near
hook under a huge experimental Sikorsky S-60 helicopter Stratford. And the 'copter sets it down gently, too. What
which has been used lor everything from uprooting trees to a way to bypass a traffic jam!
THE CHANGING U.S. AIR FORCE
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SPACE THE WILD BLACK YONDER Fourteen years ago, a 500-m.p.h. fighter plane
was the most advanced weapon In the U.S. Air Force. As recently as two years ago, manned
airplanes and winged, air-breathing missiles accounted for 80 per cent of the service's re
search and development budget. Little more than a decade from now aircraft will receive
only 5 per cent of these funds as the Air Force changes over almost entirely into space
exploration. As chart above shows, provision is even being made to nnanc projects that are
now only in the imagination. Data from the Aerospace Industries Assn.
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GLOBAL APPEAL
HOLLYWOOD (UPI) Stanley
Kramer's production ot "On The
Beach" for United Artists will be
premiered simultaneously in 22
major cities on six continents this
December. The three million dol-
Idt production, based on the novel
by Nevil Shute, stars Gregory
Peck. Ava Gardner. Fred Astaire
and Anthony Perkins.
MODEST QUARTERS FOR NOBEL WINNER Dr. Owen
Chamberlain, this yeai'i co-winner of the Nobel Prize in phys-.
Ics poses in modest office alloted him for his one-semester
teaching assignment at Harvard, in Cambridge, Mass. Doctor
Chamberlain, honored for his work with antiprotons, shares
the prize with Dr. Kmilio Scgrt at University of California.
MARLON MENTIONED
HOLLYWOOD UPl - Marlon
Brando has been mentioned as a
conlendcr for the leading role in
a film version of the Broadway
musical, "West Side Story."
JR. JOINS JERRY
HOLLYWOOD (UPI) Edward
G. Robinson Jr. has joined the
cast of Paramount's "Visit To A
Small Planet," funnyman Jerry
Lewis' latest efforL
Water Outlook
Discouraging
By United Press Iniernutionnl
It's been said many times that
California has suffered one of its
driest years during 195!), but it looks
now as though the worst might be
yet to come.
Farmers last year were able to
produce a record crop for the state
in spite of the low rainfall. There
was enough water in reservoirs and
underground from the year before.
But the U.S. Weather Bureau and
Hie state Department of Water Re
sources have made a joint fore
cast saying that there is almost no
chance that the state will receive
a normal water supply this year.
The agencies point out that the
first half of the rainy season is
over . . . with only 40 per cent
of the normal rainfall having fallen
lo date in the San Joaquin river
drainage area.
Two-thirds ot that . . . falling
in September . . . was absorbed
immediately by dry ground and
lust.
The forecasters say that if rain
fall during the rest of the winter
and the coming spring is normal
. stream flow will be approxi
mately 70 per cent of average on
the upper Sacramento River above
Shasta Dam . . . and only 45 per
cent on the American River above
Folsom Dam.
In the San Joaquin Basin .
they hope for 70 per cent in the
southern portion . . . and 50 per
cent in the norlhern portion.
If the rainfall is not up to par
California is in for a very dry year
for I he last half of the season .
indeed.
More Boats
Now Using
Lapstrake
In the past several years, there's
been a substantial increase in lap
strake construction.
This method of construction Is
similar to the old Viking method
of boatbuilding in which planks are
lapped one above the oilier like
house siding or long thin shingles.
Originally used because it elim
inated the need for caulking, this
method of building with wood fell
into disuse for some years because
it tends to produce a heavier hull
when conventional wood planking
is used.
However, in recent years several
slock boat manufacturers have
been experimenting with plywood
in lapslrakc construction. Because
this material can be fastened close
to the edge without splitting, it is
possible to produce a high strength
hull with a minimum weight in a
lapslrake boat.
For example, Thompson Boat
Works has dropped all other lines
and this year will manufacture
only lapstrake plywood hulls. Pro
ponents of this method claim
these advantages:
The hull is drier. It is more
graceful than a conventional V.
bottom hull. The ridges in the ex
terior hull surface tend to "cush
ion" the boat against shock and
to deflect flying spray.
Thompson is not the only manu
facturer utilizing this method of
construction. According to Douglas
Fir Plywood Association, an esti
mated 30 per cent of the plywood
hulls manufactured by stock boat
builders in 1960 will be of lap
strake construction.
EXPERT ADVICE
HOLLYWOOD (UPI) Retired
Brig. Gen. Frank Dorn, a veteran
of 12 years in the Far East, will
serve as technical adviser on "The
Mountain Road," a William Goetz
production starring James Stewart,
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