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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 22, 1973
Page
2
A guide to making and playing several tabletop games. It covers table croquet using mallets and spools, Blow the Feather with a feather on a long table, and Tabletop bowling using thirteen dominoes. Each activity details setup, scoring, and win conditions.
A tabletop game uses an egg carton marked with point values from one to seven. Players bounce table tennis balls from the opposite table end into cups to score the marked points, taking turns until the highest score wins. Also notes a past 20 year event about French parachutists at Dien Bien Phu.
A reader asks about a 1973 Chevelle Malibu with a woo woo noise at highway speeds and a 1972 Olds failing to move in D. Mike Lamm suggests possible causes such as tires, transmission or rear gears, and explains checks for fluid, filters, linkage, and valve alignment. The column also notes a Toyota Mark II exhaust Y-pipe conversion question and dismisses a two-pipe upgrade as uneconomical.
A Nancy Gilbert report notes that about half of college bound students plan to go away to school next year while 25.3 percent will commute. Most say independence and finding themselves drive the choice, with parents and friends as secondary influences.
In New Rochelle New York a small airplane with multicolored lights advertised a local bank during a Christmas promotion. Police and civil defense tracked the sighting after thousands across Long Island and Westchester reported a flying saucer in the night sky.
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