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FORT LAUDERDALE NEWS AND SUN-S ENTEVEL. Sunday, Sept. 7, 1069 32 US: Must Buy VTOL Airplanes From Great Britain Ml COLLECTOR'S (JJIJUER by ROBERT SVENSSON of collectors as the number increases. that for more than 50 years the piece of lumber called the two-by-four has not been that at all, but a one and five-eighths by three and five-eighths. Now, like the dollar, it may shrink even more.

The census bureau is taking votes among interested industries on a proposal to plane the things down to one and one-half by three and one-half inches. Rep. E. Ross Adair, cautioned constituents in his newsletter: "The road to success is marred with many tempting parking places." WASHINGTON. (UPI) Odds and ends from the nation's capital mostly odd: During House subcommittee hearings on defense appropriations, it came out that the U.S.

has dropped so far back in developing vertical and short takeoff-and-landing aircraft, it has to buy them overseas. "It is almost Inconceivable in my commented Rep. Glenard P. Lipscomb, "that is is necessary for the U.S., with its great technological ability in manufacturing and development, to find it necessary to go to Great Britain to get a plane such as the Harrier." Vice Adm. T.

F. Connolly, deputy chief of naval operations for air, conceded: "It does hurt a little to realize that these people have come up with something which we couldn't." On the other hand, Connolly added: "We have helped them for a long time, as you well know It does seem to me that that island over there would be a liability to us if they do not stand on their own two feet," Title of the Week Award goes to the Commerce Department's National Bureau of Standards for the leaflet: "Selected Values of Electric Dipole Moments for Molecules in the Gas Phase." If you're not in the building business, you may not know The Lincoln Head Cent Is still the "King of Coins" among collectors and Millions of valuable dates are In circulation right now. A fact-filled Illustrated booklet, "HOW TO MAKE PROFITS WITH LINCOLN HEAD CENTS" tells the story. It lists premium prices on all dates. For copy send 50c (coin) and two 6c stamps to COIN COLLECTOR'S CORNER, Dept.

3P, P.O. Box 2690, Hollywood, California 90028. In case you hadn't noticed, hippies have been wearing Indian garb: buckskin jackets, head bands, moccasins, long braids. The whole bit. And that's good.

At least someone is noticing the American Indian again. It's about time! Perhaps one of these days the movie and TV producers will even let them win a battle once in awhile. And it's about time for coin collectors to take notice of the f7 IP Qpffppf is Ira I 1 295 Sq.ln. 1970 Color TV with AFC 'n -v 111 fircsH Hm WARRANTY r-CS vVWl if V3 EXTRA COST Sale! Admiral 18" Big Screen Color Portable Indian Head Cents. The year 1969 marks the 100th, anniversary of the birth of this famous U.S.

coin. We were still fighting Indians when this coin made its bow. WHO'S AN INDIAN? It is rather amazing that the U.S. Mint had nerve enough to use an Indian Head design in those frontier days. Of course the head of the Indian Head Cent wasn't really an Indian at all.

That probably gave the mint an opportunity to do a bit of rationalizing. Legend has it that the little lady on the Indian Cent and that may surprise you, too is not an Indian but a White girl. It is said that she was the daughter of James Barton Longacre, the mint engraver who designed the coin. He simply placed an Indian bonnet on his daughter and his coin became known as the Indian Head Cent. Another strange fact: Long-acre models his daughter in the classic Greco-Roman manner.

With an Indian bonnet, yet. Maybe he was putting us Indian Head Cents were never minted in huge quantities by today's standards only in one year, 1907, did the Mint turn out over 100 million of them. By comparison, nearly five billion Lincoln cents were turned out in 1968. Despite the small mintage In most of the 54 years of its life, the Indian Head Cent is still a relatively easy coin to acquire. There are a few difficult and expensive dates.

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(LTD Three American astronauts and an Air Force major were named Saturday as 1969 winners of the Harmon International Aviation trophies. Harmon trophies are award- inree a Winning 1 Astronauts saiiHiiiiifii 'COm III COLOR i fill I ft a 1 rr -7 mmr'- color A irii Is; COLOR ij 1 Kill i i tea Tripy- if poMl MutoD (Ma? IfSlp' 1 111:1 1 1 i ml I 1. i fas BORMAN LOVELL ANDERS ed annually to the world's outstanding pilots for feats of individual piloting skill. The 1969 aviator's trophy was awarded to Maj. Jerauld R.

Gentry, of the U.S. Air Force for testing the HL-10 "lifting body." The HL-10, powered by rocket engines, develops lift without wings from its body shape, a It Is a test vehicle designed to speed development of a space shuttle of the future, capable of flying within earth's atmosphere and also capable of ferrying human passengers between the earth and orbiting space stations. The 1969 astronaut's trophy was awarded jointly to the three astronauts of Apollo 8: Col. Frank Borman, Capt. James A.

Lovell and Lt. Col. William A. Anders. They flew to the mcon last December, orbited it 10 times and returned to earth.

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