European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 21, 1968, Darmstadt, Hesse                                March 21, 196� the stars and stripes Page s s. Seeking train to ride Cushion of air Washington up the government has asked Indus Rysor Ovelon a tracked air Cushion lilo train that would3c silently Over a thin Cushion of air at 300 Miles per  transportation depart ment called on research and development firms to submit preliminary design studies for the rain which would carry up to100 passengers at Cut rate fares. Since there would be no con tact Between the train and its tideway it would be capable of speeds up to 300 Miles an hour and would be passengers be tween cities and airports at 150 Miles an . Robert a. Nelson head of the department s office of High Speed ground transportation said results of the preliminary design studies would be used As the basis for building a test Model for 1970.some versions of air Cushion vehicles Are already in opera Tion operating mainly Over water. Unlike the proposed train they do not operate on a fixed tideway. Between cities Able to shuttle soviet general Dies Moscow a it. Gen. Dmitri e. Petukhov former head of the soviet chemical warfare Academy has died at the age of69, it was reported tuesday. New yorkers petitioning mini men tattle Long shirts by Sid Sci Spiro is new York Bureau chief mobilization of militant mini skirt fans is under Way in new  group calling itself the mini men has United behind the girls Battle cry Maxis and midis Are monstrous and Down  the mini revolt against the new Long skirted belted fashions got started with a petition that was recently sent to department store presidents and fashion re  Are depressed and Dis heartened at the Prospect of Al those hideous 1950s clothes being forced upon us by new York buyers reads the petition drawn up by a committee handed by Dona Fowler Kaminsky a 28 year old Leggy Brunette with longhair and a Well stacked figure. Mrs. Kaminsky is an editor inthe science department of Scho Lastic magazines publishers of32 periodicals including coed one involved with  campaigned among her fellow workers and had no Trou ble recruiting for her cause but the coed staffers considers  those fat gathered balloon skirts and dirndl dresses with old fashioned waistlines that never hit anyone at her Waist big ugly belts in the Middle of the dresses and Coats make women look like mastodons in full Retreat continues the petition bearing nearly 100 signatures in horizontal 41. Operatic vertical 1. Canvas melodies 1. Stupor 43. Most 2. Smell rational 3. Hue 47. Turkish 4. Molluscs  5. English 48. Aspirant statesman 61. Goddess of 6. Mature retribution 7. Conjunct 52. Ireland Tion 53. 8. Renicz. Ferber Vous 54. Color 9. City in 55. Rav Pennsyl-56. Female Vanla Beds 5. Gasp 9. Pronoun 12. Norse god 13. Stravinsky 14. Fish 15. Cloister 17. Fishing pole 18. Picasso for one 19. Dlr cup table answer to yesterday s Puzzle. Havre 22. Classical language 2. Epochs 27. Moo 28. Pierce 31. Make lace edging 32 anger 33. Native Metal 34. On top 36. Strange 37. Joint 38. Resources 40. Pronoun time of no Luton 14 minuted 10. Monk s cowl 11. Whirlpool 16. Compass direction 20. Pronoun 22. House of 23. Over whelmed 24. Greek letter 25. Rodent 26. Vaporized 27. Jungle beast 29. Exist 30. Insect 35. Legume 37. Doghouse 39. Turkish Coin 40. West 41. At a distance 42. Network 43. Printer1 Mark 44. Icelandic work 45. Dispatch 46. Serving Aid 49. Inlet 50. Sea eluding those of 20 men. It was Only recently that Graceful Loose fitting mini skirted a lines finally made i big Here the petition concludes. We could finally Wear comfortable clothes that were shaped by our own individual figures an not be constricted by gathers and tucks and stiff hot Petti Coats and nipped in Waist lines. We Are All Young women with an Active interest in Fash Ion we Don t want to be Force again into the frumpy unattractive clothes we All had to end rein High  new York newspapers and Tel Evision reported the mini Max Melee. Mrs. Kaminsky has received letters of encouragement from other areas. One woman has offered to Start a similar movement in de troit. We hate the Maxi we love the mini read a letter from a group signing itself the girl from new careers training Laboratory at new York University. This is just to let you know you have our vote for minis and our pledge not to  offers of help in furthering the Campaign also have come inform men. A fellow from the Bronx ended his letter Don t hesitate to Call on Means my mini men. We Are ready to do  protesters Lynn Tracy left and Barbara Williams of new York make Clear How they stand on new fashions. Photo Travis John Pelcher who works a Scholastic and was one of the signers of the petition said miniskirts have made manhat Tan a pleasant place for  mrs. Kaminsky a 1962 graduate of the University of Cali fornia at Berkeley and a dozen other female militants met news men in one of Scholastic s mid town offices a Short distance from the seventh Avenue Gar ment District where the  Are turned out. The Young women said the had the Fuu support of husbands boy friends and male business associates. Wearing their mini skirts and Belless dresses Loose Chain belts Are Okay about five inches above their Knees they expressed distaste for the new fashions mid calf midis and longer Maxis this Way full skirts dirndl hide you behind they re not  Long skirts the office girl watchers Are  ruffles they get in  All in the 25 to 30 age group they had lived through cinched in dresses and full knee covering skirts and want to keep the recent Freedom in  my generation spent its adolescence in petticoats said bar Bara Williams another Leggy Long haired Brunette editor. Mine was a miserable adores  added my husband says girls Are supposed to jiggle abit. He thinks you should know there s a body under the  Nephew suing Columbia studio los Angeles a actor David Mccallum the slender Blond sidekick to televisions the Man from ," has filed a s385.000 breach of con tract suit against Columbia Pic Tures  Mccullum asserted tuesday he and the studio made an Oral agreement feb. 8 for him to receive top Billing in a new motion picture. I instead he said was notified 11 Days later that the studio had i decided to abandon his pm a ploy ment. He said he was prom ised $125,000 for the role plus travelling expenses to Lon Donand Africa. In peking no no route to Brevity Copenhagen up Back in september Bent Joergenson wrote to the chinese travel Agency Lupin she in peking to arrange for two groups of danish tourists to visit China. Wednes Day he had his reply. After hours spent translating i from the chinese he found it Road As follows the great proletarian cultural revolution created and led your Groat Leader chairman Mao won its final Victory in 1967.therefore 19 58 will be marked As Victory  to go through with the five Points of struggle assisted in the poking people s daily now year s edition we must spend this year dedicating ourselves to the Battle against egotism and selfishness Anil in Stead learn to love the  those Brilliant tasks in front of us we cannot receive More foreign tourists this  in other words  runs a t r a v of Agency Here. We e pals that was real White of you 3-21 would we ask for our month Back ?