The Los Angeles Times from Los Angeles, California • 472

(ffiULTU LOS ANGELES TIMES, DECEMBER 6, IS70 In an Adjust-A-Bed, one can read or watch TV without the neck, back and eye strain that results from flat beds with propped pillows. Adjust-A-Beds are available in all bed sizes from Twin to King to fit any bedstead or headboard with mattresses of any desired firmness. Immediate Christmas delivery and convenient payment plan for the budget minded. This Christmas, give the gift. Adjust-A-Bed.

Main Los Angeles Showroom: 3279 WilshireBhrd, near Vermont Phone 38M497 Other Showrooms: 11625 Wilshire Blvd, 478-4009 Orange County: 411 South Main St. in Orange, 639-4142 Pasadena: 742 E. Colorado Blvd. near Robinsons, 385-3956 Long Beach 3928 Atlantic Ave, 426-9469 S.F.Valley-Encino: 17070 Ventura Blvd. near Balboa, 986-3800 (EKiM Stars eery: Opee 10 AM-t PM Mm.

I Fri. til I Hi, Sea. 12-4 PM) West View 10 Balgar Bob by Burt Prelutsky. Adjust-A-Bed. The extra-ordinary gift for someone special wife, husband, parents, grownup children, relatives or long-time business associates.

A gift to be used and appreciated, day after day, year after year. Give that "someone" the enjoyment and unmatched comfort of the world's first, and still the finest, electrically adjustable bed unmatched in its ease and quietness of operation. With 1000 "Posture-Perfect" positions available at the touch of a switch, Adjust-A-Bed has been recommended by doctors for various back problems, ill- nesses and disabilities. 13 Kins tkj Kittens by Tom Nolan. That title has been held by George Barris since he customized his first '36 Ford in 1940.

And the head that wears the crown isn't at all uneasy, as actor and writer Nolan who profiled another legendary customizer, Vorr Dutch, in WESTS May' 24 issue discovers upon dropping in at Barris' North Hollywood showroom. Photography by Ron Mesaros and George Barris. 22 Ttrracidt in tbt Vallty el the Mishrooau by Roger Rapoport Years of tests involving hundreds of detonations at the Nevada Test Site have provided answers to many questions involving nuclear weapons and their effects. For many, however, they in turn, have raised more questions, including, how much if any of the fallout risks have been necessary and what is to be done with dangerous wastes left there now. Author Rapoport has written in WEST previously about the dangers of plutonium production and radioactive wastes.

Photography by Ted Streshinsky. West Style) 30 Pennies from Haiti by Reva Berger. Actress Yvette Mimieux and friend go into the importing business. Photography by Guy Webster. 34 100 Million Tens ef Treeile, Bit What a Wmii by John F.

Lawrence and Paul E. Steiger. The QUEEN MARY has cost Long Beach a lot more than expected (including, maybe, some official scalps). But she just may be worth it after all. Lawrence is TIMES financial editor and Steiger is a TIMES financial writer.

The illustration of what the QUEEN will look like refurbished is by Design Maru. Photography by Margaret Townsend. West Litters 45 by the readers. 1 West Travel 48 This I aheit As Far Away As Yei Can Get by Dorothy Fields. Travel writer Mrs.

Fields visits exotic Nepal the world's highest kingdom and land of the living goddess. Photography by Jack Fields. 58 Who's Afraid ef San Diego State? by Patrick McNulty. UCLA, USC, Texas, Stanford, all the big boys that's who at least according to some of State's boosters, which is why, they say, the Aztecs remain stuck on a state college circuit they outclass. McNulty is a frequent contributor to WEST and other magazines.

Photography by Bob Van Doren. On The Cover Fifty coats of paint multicolored swirls, pearlescents give this design by George Barris made specially for WEST with the logo cut out of chrome as the insignia its rich look. Suds during a wash job capture the glisten in this photograph by Mike Salisbury. See more Barris creations on page 13 along with his story by Tom Nolan. I), JAMES TOLAND, Director of Special Sections MARSHALL LUMSDEN, Editor of West Magazine MIKE SALISBURY, Art Director UMBERTO R.

TOSI, JAMES M. WIGGINS, Associate Editors ROD KAMITSUKA, EDWARD CARBAJAL Art Department ADJUST-A-BED1 BY SLEEPER-LOUNGE INC. West magailne, weekly publication, is owned by the Us Angeles Times, Times Minor Square, Los Angeles, California 90053, and Is distributed exclusively each Sunday by The Los Angeles Times, which takes no responsibility for unsolicited manuscripts, photographs or other materials received. Such submissions should be accompanied by a stamped, self-addressed envelope. 8 Los Angeles Times WEST magazine, December 6, 1970.